fourth-rate (English, adj)
expansion: fourth-rate (not comparable)
Senses:
topics: government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
glosses: 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.
tags: UK
historical
not-comparable
glosses: Terrible, awful; less than third-rate.
tags: idiomatic
not-comparable
uncommon
Forms:
form: fourth rate
tags: alternative