fifth-rate
(UK, military, nautical, historical) A fifth-rate warship.
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#1·Apr 27, 2026UK
(UK, military, nautical, historical) A fifth-rate warship.
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#2·Apr 27, 2026UK
(UK, military, nautical, historical) Of a Royal Navy warship in the Napoleonic Era: having 3244 guns across one or two gun decks, a complement of 200300, and weighing 7001,450 tons burthen.
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#3·Apr 27, 2026UK
(idiomatic, uncommon) Terrible, awful; less than fourth-rate.
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