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Razer vs Razee - What's the difference?

razer | razee |

As nouns the difference between razer and razee

is that razer is someone who razes while 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.

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.

razer

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Someone who razes.

    • 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)