Razee vs Wazee - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between razee and wazee

is that razee is (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 while wazee is (mzee).

As a verb razee

is (nautical) to cut (a ship) down to a smaller number of decks, and thus to an inferior rate or class.

razee

English

Noun

(en noun)

(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.

(Totten)

Verb

(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.

to razee a book, or an article

*1851 , (Herman Melville), (Moby Dick) ,

"Aye, aye! it was that accursed white whale that razeed me; made a poor pegging lubber of me for ever and a day!"

(Webster 1913)

wazee

English

Noun

(head)

(mzee)

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mzee

English

Noun

(en-noun)

(East Africa) An elder (old person).

* 2003 , Ward S Just, The American Ambassador?

...every President since Teddy Roosevelt saw Africa in the faces of her mzees , in their English suits or tribal robes...

* 2005 , Ernest Hemingway, Robert William Lewis, Under Kilimanjaro?

It is difficult to be both and the older mzees resent the irregularity of the position.

* 2006 , Edward I Steinhart, Black poachers, white hunters: a social history of hunting in colonial Kenya?

...we arranged an impromptu interview with this reluctant and less than candid local mzee , who lived near the Tsavo boundary.

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