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adj
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, historical, not-comparable
Topics: government, military, nautical, politics, transport, war
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Antonyms: none provided
adj
Terrible, awful; less than fifth-rate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: idiomatic, not-comparable, uncommon
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Synonyms: dismal, horrible, rubbish, abysmal, atrocious, awful, bad, chronic, coarse, corny, crap, crapalicious, crappy, crummy, deityforsaken, dire, disagreeable, dogshit, dreadful, fifth-rate, foul, fourth-rate, godawful, hellish, hideous, hopeless, horrendous, horrid, horrific, inadequate, incompetent, inelegant, intolerable, inferior, lackluster, loathsome, lousy, miserable, naff, negative, odious, ordinary, pathetic, peak, piss-poor, rotten, shitawful, shitty, sixth-rate, sloppy, subpar, terrible, unfavorable, wack
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noun
A sixth-rate warship.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, historical
Topics: government, military, nautical, politics, transport, war
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History
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