fifth-rate
adjDefinitions
Of a Royal Navy warship in the Napoleonic Era
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)[.]
Terrible, awful
Terrible, awful; less than fourth-rate.
A fifth-rate warship.
The neighborhood
- neighborfirst-rate
- neighborfourth-rate
- neighborsecond-rate
- neighborsixth-rate
- neighborthird-rate
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA