Definify.com

Webster 1913 Edition

Razee

Ra-zee′

(rȧ-zē′)
,
Noun.
[F. vaisseau
rasé
, fr.
raser
to raze, to cut down ships. See
Raze
,
Verb.
T.
,
Rase
,
Verb.
T.
]
(Naut.)
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.
Totten.

Ra-zee′

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Razeed
(rȧ-zēd′)
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Razeeing
.]
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
.

Webster 1828 Edition

Razee

RAZEE'

,
Noun.
A ship of war cut down to a smaller size.

Similar Results