fourth-rate

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fourth-rate (not comparable)

  1. (UK, military, nautical, historical) Of a Royal Navy ship of the line in the Napoleonic Era: having 50–60 guns across two gun decks, a complement of 320–420, and weighing approximately 1,000 tons burthen.
  2. (idiomatic, uncommon) Terrible, awful; less than third-rate.

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fourth-rate (plural fourth-rates)

  1. (UK, military, nautical, historical) A fourth-rate ship of the line.

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