third-rate

Definitions

1. 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 64–80 guns across two gun decks, a complement of 500–650, and weighing approximately 1,750 tons burthen.

2. 2

   Poor, shoddy

   Poor, shoddy; less than second-rate.

   • He was smoking a cherry-wood pipe, and looked on the whole as if he had borrowed his outfit from the wardrobe of a third-rate dramatic company.
   • I consider it to now be a third-rate service run without any excuses being offered.
3. 3

   A third-rate ship of the line.

The neighborhood

• neighborfifth-rate
• neighborfirst-rate
• neighborfourth-rate
• neighborsecond-rate
• neighborsixth-rate