Found 1 items, similar to razee.
English → English (gcide) Definition: Razee Razee \Ra*zee"\ (r[.a]*z[=e]"), n. [F. vaisseau ras['e], fr. raser to raze, to cut down ships. See Raze, v. t., Rase, v. 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. [1913 Webster] Razee \Ra*zee"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Razeed (r[.a]*z[=e]d"); 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. [1913 Webster]