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fifth-rate

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Adjective

  1. 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.
  2. Terrible, awful; less than fourth-rate.
  3. Alternative spelling of fifth-rate.

Noun

  1. A fifth-rate warship.
  2. Alternative spelling of fifth-rate.

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