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