adjective: (UK, military, nautical, historical) Of a Royal Navy warship in the Napoleonic Era: having 32–44 guns across one or two gun decks, a complement of 200–300, and weighing 700–1,450 tons burthen.
adjective: (idiomatic, uncommon) Terrible, awful; less than fourth-rate.
noun: (UK, military, nautical, historical) A fifth-rate warship.
