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Razee logo #10101) Ship type 2) Ship with a deck cut off 3) Ship with top deck removed 4) Truncated warship
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Razee

Razee logo #21000 A razee or razée iː is a sailing ship that has been cut down (razeed) to reduce the number of decks. The word is derived from the French vaisseau rasé, meaning a razed (in the sense of shaved down) ship. ==Sixteenth century== The Queen`s ships built in England by Sir John Hawkins and his shipbuilders, Richard Chapman, Peter Pett and Mathew Bak....
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Razee

Razee logo #21002• (v. t.) 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. • (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.R...
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Razee

Razee logo #20972Ra·zee' (rȧ*zē') noun [ French vaisseau rasé , from raser to raze, to cut down ships. See Raze , transitive verb , Rase , transitive verb ] (Nautical) An armed ship having her upper deck cut away, and t...
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Razee

Razee logo #20972Ra·zee' transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Razeed (rȧ*zēd'); present participle & verbal noun Razeeing .] To cut down to a less number of decks, and thus to an inferior rate or class, as a ship; hence, to prune or ...
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