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Razee [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A ship of war cut down to a smaller size.

Razee [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. 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.

2. 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.

Razeed [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Razee

Razeeing [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Razee