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  1. Sixth-rate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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adjective:  (UK, military, nautical, historical) 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.
adjective:  (idiomatic, uncommon) Terrible, awful; less than fifth-rate.
noun:  (UK, military, nautical, historical) A sixth-rate warship.

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