Razee
Razee (rȧ*zē") , noun
[French vaisseau rasé, from raser to raze, to cut down ships. See Raze, transitive verb, Rase, transitive verb]
(Nautical) 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
Razee (rȧ*zēd") , transitive verb
To cut down to a less number of decks, and thus to an inferior rate or class, as a ship; hence, to prune or abridge by cutting off or retrenching parts; as, to razee a book, or an article.