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third-rate

The English word “third-rate” has 3 meanings listed here.

adjective

  1. Of a Royal Navy ship of the line in the Napoleonic Era: having 64–80 guns across two gun decks, a complement of 500–650, and weighing approximately 1,750 tons burthen.
  2. Poor, shoddy; less than second-rate.

noun

  1. A third-rate ship of the line.
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