fifth-rate
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See also: fifth rate
Alternative forms
Adjective
fifth-rate (not comparable)
- (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.
- (idiomatic, uncommon) Terrible, awful; less than fourth-rate.
See also
Noun
fifth-rate (plural fifth-rates)
- (UK, military, nautical, historical) A fifth-rate warship.
See also
- frigate
- great frigate
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