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razee

The English word “razee” has 3 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. 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.

verb

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

Etymology

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

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