fifth-rate
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fifth-rate
adjective fifth rate
- 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. [A] great and ſtout Fleet before the Texel (and not as much as one of our Fourth or Fifth Rate-Frigats could follow them)[.]
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Terrible, awful; less than fourth-rate.
Similar: dismal, horrible, rubbish, abysmal, atrocious, awful, bad, chronic, coarse, corny, crap, crapalicious
noun fifth-rates · fifth rate
- A fifth-rate warship.
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