third-rate

Meaning

1. adjective 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. adjective Poor, shoddy; less than second-rate.
3. noun A third-rate ship of the line.

Similar words

inferior third-class second-rate first-rate sixth-rate fifth-rate lieutenant before the mast petit cadet blue

Word family

third-rater third-raters