disrate
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
Etymology
Origin of disrate
Example Sentences
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Owner can fire captain but only captain can fire or disrate ship's officers.
From Cappy Ricks Or, the Subjugation of Matt Peasley by Kyne, Peter B. (Peter Bernard)
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 Schonberg, J.
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 Mountevans, Edward Ratcliffe Garth Russell Evans, baron
As they're not sailors, I mean to disrate them to boys at five dollars a month.
From The Grain Ship by Robertson, Morgan
Must be minded, or it’s rank mutiny, and a disrate.
From Menhardoc by Staniland, C.J.
After a terrific lecture, he reminded Bracker that he had been disrated for a former offence of a like nature.
From Nevermore by Bolderwood, Rolf
In a short, time the mate, who was so weak that he was scarcely able to stand alone, was summoned before the captain, who gave him a severe reprimand, and disrated him.
From Frank on a Gun-Boat by Castlemon, Harry
But I've been disrated before and we'll let that pass.
From Wide Courses by Connolly, James B. (James Brendan)
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 Robertson, Morgan
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 Janvier, Thomas A. (Thomas Allibone)
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 Overend, William Heysham
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 Hornung, Ernest W.
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 Kyne, Peter B. (Peter Bernard)
I don't mean he'd think of disrating you, Cap'n Sears.
From Fair Harbor by Lincoln, Joseph Crosby
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