razee

Meanings

Noun

• 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

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

Origin

• From French vaisseau rasé, from raser. See raze and rase.