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Razee

Ra-zee’,, n.

noun

n. [Fr. vaisseau rasé, from raser, to raze, to cut down ships. See RAZE and RASE.] (Naut.) An armed ship having her upper deck cut down, and thus reduced to the next inferior rate, as a seventy-four cut down to a frigate. Totten.

Ra-zee′, v. t.

verbtransitive

[imp. & p. p. RAZEED; p. pr. & vb. n. RAZEEING.] To cut down to an inferior rate or class, as a ship; hence, to prune or abridge by cutting off or retrenching parts; as, to razee a book, or an article.