razeed

Variant of razee

noun

a wooden warship made lower by the removal of the upper deck

Origin: Fr rasé (as in vaisseau rasé, leveled vessel), pp. of raser, to level, scrape: see raze

transitive verb razeed, razeeing

to remove the upper deck of (a warship)
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