third-rate

Meaning

Adj

1. (UK, historical, not-comparable) 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. (idiomatic, not-comparable) Poor, shoddy; less than second-rate.

Noun

A third-rate ship of the line.

Synonyms

discourse marker

poor

Translations

minderwertig

de dernier ordre

scadente

minderwaardig

derderangs