What is "disrate"

Usage examples of "disrate".

What is more, one captain's rating can be disrated by another, and if you trouble my sleep, by God, I shall turn your boy before the mast and flog the tender pink skin off his back every day for the rest of the commission.

Jack disrated Morgan, promoting the dumb negro Alfred King, according to his former threat - a dumb bosun's mate would surely be more terrible, more deterrent.

The punishment book, which Bolitho had inspected first, and which he always considered to be the safest measure of a ship's captain if not the performance of his command, showed the usual list of petty offenders, with the punishments of flogging and disrating no more or less than one might expect.

It means disrating a midshipman - degrading him, so that he is no longer what we call a young gentleman but a common sailor.

Wells had been a full Yeoman of Signals up to two months previously: then he had been disrated, and sentenced to eighteen days detention, for (in the bleak words of King's Regulations & Admiralty Instructions) 'conduct prejudicial to good order and naval discipline in that he (a) was absent over leave 76 hours and 35 minutes, (b) did return on board drunk, (c) did resist the duty Petty Officer detailed to supervise him, and (d) did destroy by fire nine signal-flags, value 27s.

Furthermore, anyone found fisking on duty will face the full force of a court-martial, up to and including flogging and disrating.