fourth-rate

adj

Definitions

  1. Of a Royal Navy ship of the line in the Napoleonic Era

    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.

  2. Terrible, awful

    Terrible, awful; less than third-rate.

  3. A fourth-rate ship of the line.

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