| dock someone of provisions | лишить пайка (In addition to the right to administer correction aboard ship to mutinous or incorrigible seaman – whether corporal punishment, confinement in the brig, or being docked of provisions, or perhaps all three – and the right to discharge such a seaman, the master had the further
right at law to prosecute him for mutiny and insubordination in the
vice-admiralty court on his return to port. ("Government And Labor In Early America")  archive.org) |
| dock someone of their rations | лишить пайка (For instance, if they rob one another, judgment is pronounced not by the chiefs, but (???) by the squad or company to which they belong; in one word, by their peers, and this justice is by no means of the lenient kind. If to borrow their familiar locution "they rob their backs, they pay with their stomachs"; in other terms, if they sell their clothes to get drink or indulge in debauch, they are docked of their rations until the amount is made up. (London Evening News, 1888, January 30, Page 4) googleusercontent.com) |
