fourth-rate
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fourth-rate
adjective fourth rate
- 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.
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Terrible, awful; less than third-rate.
Similar: dismal, horrible, rubbish, abysmal, atrocious, awful, bad, chronic, coarse, corny, crap, crapalicious
noun fourth-rates · fourth rate
- A fourth-rate ship of the line.
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