sixth-rate
See also: sixth rate
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sixth-rate (not comparable)
- (UK, military, nautical, historical) Of a Royal Navy warship in the Napoleonic Era: having 20–28 guns on one gun deck, a complement of 140–200, and weighing 340–550 tons burthen.
- (idiomatic, uncommon) Terrible, awful; less than fifth-rate.
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sixth-rate (plural sixth-rates)
- (UK, military, nautical, historical) A sixth-rate warship.