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Definition of Razee
1. n. 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. 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.
Definition of Razee
1. Noun. (nautical) 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. ¹
2. Verb. To cut away part of something ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Razee
1. to make lower by removing the upper deck, as a ship [v -ZEED, -ZEEING, -ZEES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Razee
Literary usage of Razee
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Hedaya, Or Guide: A Commentary on the Mussulman Laws by ʻAlī ibn Abī Bakr] [al-Marghīnānī, Charles Hamilton (1870)
"Of letters from one razee to another 340 Chap. II. Of exceptions ; and what is
deemed Sect ... razee ..."
2. Official Opinions of the Attorneys General of the United States: Advising by United States Attorney-General (1858)
"Bnt "razee sloops" are not mentioned by the act defining the pay of pursers ...
Clearly not; for the "razee" of. the act is a ship of the line cut down to a ..."
3. A History of the War Between Great Britain and the United States of America by Gilbert Auchinleck (1855)
"The boats in consequence of their approach, hauled off, though keeping up a well
directed fire on the razee and the other ship, which gave us several ..."
4. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"razee. To cut down. Used primarily of reducing the Bize and rank of a vessel.
... 1844 Tell the carpenter to razee a couple of water-casks, ..."
5. Sam Slick's Wise Saws and Modern Instances, Or, What He Said, Did, Or Invented by Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1853)
"Some they cuts in two and lengthens, others they razee, and then shifts the ...
Well, Sir, the 'Constitution' was like a razee. The 'Gerry-arr' frigate was ..."
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