third-rate

adj 2noun 1

Definitions

adj

1

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

Poor, shoddy; less than second-rate.

He was smoking a cherry-wood pipe, and looked on the whole as if he had borrowed his outfit from the wardrobe of a third-rate dramatic company.

I consider it to now be a third-rate service run without any excuses being offered.

noun

1

A third-rate ship of the line.

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