Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗verb
To cut (a ship) down to a smaller number of decks, and thus to an inferior rate or class. · To trim or abridge by cutting off parts.
noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryAn 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.
From French vaisseau rasé, from raser (“to rase, to cut down ships”). See raze and rase (verbs).
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