razee (v. t.) An armed ship having her upper deck cut away, and thus
reduced to the next inferior rate, as a seventy-four cut down to a
frigate.
razee (v. t.) To cut down to a less number of decks, and thus 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.
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razee ra-zē′, n. a ship-of-war cut down by
reducing the number of decks. [Fr. rasé, cut down.]
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