Meaning

2 senses
  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.

    of lesser quality than second-rate

third-rate — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto