(UK, military, nautical, historical) Of a Royal Navy ship of the line in the Napoleonic Era: having 5060 guns across two gun decks, a complement of 320420, and weighing approximately 1,000 tons burthen.
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(idiomatic, uncommon) Terrible, awful; less than third-rate.
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(UK, military, nautical, historical) A fourth-rate ship of the line.
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