RAZEED

Verb

razeed

simple past tense and past participle of razee

Anagrams

• darzee

Source: Wiktionary

RAZEE

Ra*zee", n. Etym: [F. vaisseau rasé, fr. raser to rase, to cut down ships. See Raze, v. t., Rase, v. t.] (Naut.)

Definition: 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.

Ra*zee", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Razeed; p. pr. & vb. n. Razeeing.]

Definition: To cut down to a less number of decks, and thus to an inferior rate or glass, as a ship; hence, to prune or abridge by cutting off or retrenching parts; as, to razee a book, or an article.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition