razee

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English

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Etymology

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From French vaisseau rasé, from raser (to rase, to cut down ships). See raze and rase (verbs).

Noun

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razee (plural razees)

  1. (nautical) An armed ship with its upper deck cut away, and thus reduced to the next inferior rate, such as a seventy-four cut down to a frigate.
    • 1838, Edmund Fanning, Voyages to the South Seas [] :
      an old line-of-battle ship, (21 years of age,) cut down to a razee

Verb

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razee (third-person singular simple present razees, present participle razeeing, simple past and past participle razeed)

  1. (transitive, nautical) To cut (a ship) down to a smaller number of decks, and thus to an inferior rate or class.
  2. (transitive, figurative) To trim or abridge by cutting off parts.
    to razee a book, or an article

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