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
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 disrate you on account of your unfitness for the post, and you will now return to your former rating, as I have restored your name to the list of the crew.
From The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea by J. Schonberg
Must be minded, or it’s rank mutiny, and a disrate.
From Menhardoc by C.J. Staniland
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
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
For cause, he disrated his chief officers: and so asserted in that desolate place, as fearlessly as he would have asserted it in an English harbor, that aboard his ship his will was law.
From Henry Hudson A Brief Statement of His Aims and His Achievements by Thomas A. (Thomas Allibone) Janvier
For if any of these are found wanting, they are forthwith disrated or discharged.
From White Jacket or, the World on a Man-of-War by Herman Melville
I then turned to the clerk to see the entry properly made; but on looking again at the disrated seaman, I observed, to my astonishment, that he was in tears!
From The Lieutenant and Commander Being Autobigraphical Sketches of His Own Career, from Fragments of Voyages and Travels by Basil Hall
Jack glared at the disrated butler, and ordered him out of the room.
From My Lord Duke by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung
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
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
I don't mean he'd think of disrating you, Cap'n Sears.
From Fair Harbor by Joseph Crosby Lincoln
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
