fourth-rate

== English == === Alternative forms === fourth rate === Adjective === fourth-rate (not comparable) (UK, military, nautical, historical) 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. (idiomatic, uncommon) Terrible, awful; less than third-rate. ==== See also ==== === Noun === fourth-rate (plural fourth-rates) (UK, military, nautical, historical) A fourth-rate ship of the line. ==== See also ==== two-decker