Fifth-rate

adj, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A fifth-rate warship. UK, historical
Adjective
  1. 1
    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. UK, historical, not-comparable

    "[A] great and ſtout Fleet before the Texel (and not as much as one of our Fourth or Fifth Rate-Frigats could follow them)[.]"

  2. 2
    Terrible, awful; less than fourth-rate. idiomatic, not-comparable, uncommon

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cut-rate

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"[A] great and ſtout Fleet before the Texel (and not as much as one of our Fourth or Fifth Rate-Frigats could follow them)[.]"

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