disrate

Must be minded, or it’s rank mutiny, and a disrate.

From Menhardoc by C.J. Staniland

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

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 Adventures of Peregrine Pickle by T. (Tobias) Smollett

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

You will be disrated, Corporal Jim, and Lieutenant Earle, in order to reward Bob for carrying tales and to encourage him to carry more, will give him your place.

From George at the Fort Life Among the Soldiers by Harry Castlemon

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 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 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

In the evening General Longstreet told me that he had just received intelligence that Hooker had been disrated, and that Meade256 was appointed in his place.

From Three Months in the Southern States, April-June 1863 by Arthur James Lyon Fremantle

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

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