disrate
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
Etymology
Origin of disrate
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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 Peter B. (Peter Bernard) Kyne
In your cablegram received to-day, you take occasion to remind us that no manager or owner has authority to disrate a ship's officer.
From Cappy Ricks Or, the Subjugation of Matt Peasley by Peter B. (Peter Bernard) Kyne
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
“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
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
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
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
I could not be disrated, as I was only a cabin-boy, but a substitutionary penalty was invoked against me.
From Windjammers and Sea Tramps by Walter Runciman
After a terrific lecture, he reminded Bracker that he had been disrated for a former offence of a like nature.
From Nevermore by Rolf Bolderwood
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
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
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
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