Razee vs Ramee - What's the difference?
razee | ramee |
(nautical) 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.
(nautical) To cut (a ship) down to a smaller number of decks, and thus to an inferior rate or class.
(figurative) To trim or abridge by cutting off parts.
*1851 , (Herman Melville), (Moby Dick) ,
As nouns the difference between razee and ramee
is that razee is 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 while ramee is alternative form of ramie.As a verb razee
is to cut (a ship) down to a smaller number of decks, and thus to an inferior rate or class.razee
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Totten)
Verb
- to razee a book, or an article
- "Aye, aye! it was that accursed white whale that razeed me; made a poor pegging lubber of me for ever and a day!"