*“Razeed,” derived from the French vaisseau rasé, referred to a ship from which one or more decks have been cut away in order to reduce its size and weight. In Moby-Dick, chapter 36, Captain Ahab, for whose portrait Melville likely had Calhoun in mind, tells his first mate, Mr. Starbuck, “Aye, aye! It was that accursed white whale that razeed me.” Moby-Dick (1850; Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 1988), 163.