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
“I appreciate your feeling, my lad,” he answered; “but even if he does return I won’t disrate you, and I will see how we can best manage to get you an outfit.”
From Won from the Waves by John B. Greene
But I hope you'll take care of the rest of my crew, and not disrate them after I am dead in favour of new followers.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 08 — Fiction by Arthur Mee
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
Jack glared at the disrated butler, and ordered him out of the room.
From My Lord Duke by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung
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
"But" said he, "I must bargain they shall be disrated if they attempt to reason."
From Hard Cash by Charles Reade
The office was accepted with alacrity; but in a few minutes he too ran us into a worse difficulty than his predecessor ever did, and was at once disrated amidst the derision of his comrades.
From A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and its tributaries And of the Discovery of Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa, 1858-1864 by David Livingstone
Listen; consider yourself disrated from this instant—do you hear?”
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
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
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
