How to pronounce “third-rate”

Meaning

• [Adjective]
• (UK, military, nautical, historical) 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.
• (idiomatic) Poor, shoddy; less than second-rate.
• [Noun]
• (UK, military, nautical, historical) A third-rate ship of the line.

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