fifth-rate

== English == === Alternative forms === fifth rate === Adjective === fifth-rate (not comparable) (UK, military, nautical, historical) 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. (idiomatic, uncommon) Terrible, awful; less than fourth-rate. ==== See also ==== === Noun === fifth-rate (plural fifth-rates) (UK, military, nautical, historical) A fifth-rate warship. ==== See also ==== frigate great frigate