Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Razee"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Razee \Ra*zee"\, n. [F. vaisseau ras['e], fr. raser to rase, to
cut down ships. See {Raze}, v. t., {Rase}, v. t.] (Naut.)
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. --Totten.
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