sixth-rate

See also: sixth rate

English

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Adjective

sixth-rate (not comparable)

  1. (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.
    • 2023, David Grann, chapter 1, in The Wager, Doubleday:
      The Navy classified warships by their number of cannons, and with twenty-eight, she was a sixth-rate–the lowest rank.
  2. (idiomatic, uncommon) Terrible, awful; less than fifth-rate.

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Noun

sixth-rate (plural sixth-rates)

  1. (UK, military, nautical, historical) A sixth-rate warship.

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