fourth-rate
adjDefinitions
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.
Terrible, awful
Terrible, awful; less than third-rate.
A fourth-rate ship of the line.
The neighborhood
- neighborfifth-rate
- neighborfirst-rate
- neighborsecond-rate
- neighborsixth-rate
- neighborthird-rate
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA