Razeed vs Razees - What's the difference?

As a verb razeed

is past tense of razee.

plural of lang=en.

(head)

(razee)

(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)

(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!"