Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—R

Razee

(raz-za). A ship of war cut down to a smaller size, as a seventy-four reduced to a frigate. (French, raser.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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