fifth-rate
Short definition from Wiktionary
Adjective
- Of a Royal Navy warship in the Napoleonic Era: having 32–44 guns across one or two gun decks, a complement of 200–300, and weighing 700–1,450 tons burthen.
- Terrible, awful; less than fourth-rate.
- Alternative spelling of fifth-rate.
Noun
- A fifth-rate warship.
- Alternative spelling of fifth-rate.
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