fifth-rate

See also: fifth rate

English

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Adjective

fifth-rate (not comparable)

  1. (UK, military, nautical, historical) 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. (idiomatic, uncommon) Terrible, awful; less than fourth-rate.

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Noun

fifth-rate (plural fifth-rates)

  1. (UK, military, nautical, historical) A fifth-rate warship.

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