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Definition of Razees
1. razee [v] - See also: razee
Lexicographical Neighbors of Razees
Literary usage of Razees
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Chronicles of Baltimore: Being a Complete History of "Baltimore Town by John Thomas Scharf (1874)
"... frigates, and razees, but laughed at them all. Sloop Enterprise was captured
by the Whig, of Baltimore, as were also brigs Brunswick, Raco Horse, ..."
2. The Chronicles of Baltimore: Being a Complete History of "Baltimore Town by John Thomas Scharf (1874)
"She was chased some eight or ten times by brigs, sloops-of-war, frigates, and
razees, but laughed at them all. Sloop Enterprise was captured by the Whig, ..."
3. The Gentleman's Magazine (1828)
"Three of them were accordingly treated after that manner, and registered as
razees, but the others were found to be in too defective a state to be proceeded ..."
4. Publications of the Navy Records Society by Navy Records Society (Great Britain) (1900)
"Five sail of the line struck, twelve razees and prams also struck. Small vessels
employed towing ... One ship of the line blew up and some of the razees. ..."
5. Logs of the Great Sea Fights, 1794-1805 by Thomas Sturges Jackson (1900)
"Five sail of the line struck, twelve razees and prams also struck. Small vessels
employed towing ... One ship of the line blew up and some of the razees. ..."
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