Definition of "razeeing" [razeeing]

• Present participle of razee. (verb)

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• "The expedient of razeeing had been adopted by the British Government, in order rapidly to prepare vessels superior to the American forty-fours, yet less costly in crews than ships of the line."
• "This operation -- razeeing the structure some fifteen feet -- was, in effect upon the chimney, something like the falling of the great spring tides."
• ""The razeeing should be effected by sawing the top timbers, and cutting off by sections the whole of the upper dock, excepting the space between the wheel-houses, thus leaving the greater part of the main deck exposed and for the accommodation of the armament, and enough of the sides above that deck to answer for bulwarks and side-ports."