disrate
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As they're not sailors, I mean to disrate them to boys at five dollars a month.
From The Grain Ship by Morgan Robertson
Owner can fire captain but only captain can fire or disrate ship's officers.
From Cappy Ricks Or, the Subjugation of Matt Peasley by Peter B. (Peter Bernard) Kyne
It is obvious, too, that if giving a man a higher rating be a source of encouragement, to disrate him may readily be used as a means of punishment.
From The Lieutenant and Commander Being Autobigraphical Sketches of His Own Career, from Fragments of Voyages and Travels by Basil Hall
Must be minded, or it’s rank mutiny, and a disrate.
From Menhardoc by C.J. Staniland
They gave their services for nothing, and the only way in which we could repay them was to select two chief Petty Officers from their number, disrate them, and take them Poleward as ordinary seamen.
From South with Scott by Edward Ratcliffe Garth Russell Evans, Baron Mountevans
I said; "you are no longer captain of the foretop, you are disrated on the ship's books."
From The Lieutenant and Commander Being Autobigraphical Sketches of His Own Career, from Fragments of Voyages and Travels by Basil Hall
"But" said he, "I must bargain they shall be disrated if they attempt to reason."
From Hard Cash by Charles Reade
I did not know the longitude; but I did know that we had sailed due east since I was disrated, and that then we were on the forty-seventh parallel.
From The Grain Ship by Morgan Robertson
It will never do to let the carpenter be disrated or dismissed the ship for conduct of which he is innocent.
From Salt Water The Sea Life and Adventures of Neil D'Arcy the Midshipman by C. J. de Lacey
I would be disrated and go before the mast to-morrow, to be shown the way upward again by such a guide.
From Perils of Certain English Prisoners by Charles Dickens
It was worse than tyranny, I thought, this arbitrary conduct in disrating me unjustly!
From On Board the Esmeralda Martin Leigh's Log - A Sea Story by William Heysham Overend
We believe you to be a clever first mate, otherwise Captain Kendall would not have dug you up out of the forecastle; and believing this, naturally we dislike the thought of disrating you.
From Cappy Ricks Or, the Subjugation of Matt Peasley by Peter B. (Peter Bernard) Kyne
I don't mean he'd think of disrating you, Cap'n Sears.
From Fair Harbor by Joseph Crosby Lincoln
The disrating had been largely due to the second officer, who did not hesitate to ask the fellow in what capacity he saw him now.
From Denis Dent A Novel by Ernest W. Hornung
