A swinging fence in a watercourse to prevent cattle passing through.

(transitive) To demolish; to level to the ground. / (transitive) To destroy; to strike out of existence; to obliterate. / (transitive) To scrape as if with a razor.

Obsolete spelling of race (rhizome of ginger).

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of raze

simple past tense and past participle of raze

(obsolete) Slashed or striped in patterns.

plural of razee

(nautical) An 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.

(transitive, nautical) To cut (a ship) down to a smaller number of decks, and thus to an inferior rate or class. / (transitive, figuratively) To trim or abridge by cutting off parts.

present participle of razee