Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Navigable by boats or small river-craft.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Such as can be transported in a boat.
- adjective Navigable for boats, or small river craft.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Capable of being
transported byboat . - adjective
Navigable by boats.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Has anyone tried to load this off a boatable USB, with something like UNetbootin [unetbootin. sourceforge.net]
Lifehacker’s Guide To Upgrading To Windows 7 RC | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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Has anyone tried to load this off a boatable USB, with something like UNetbootin unetbootin.sourceforge.net
Lifehacker’s Guide To Upgrading To Windows 7 RC | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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At any rate, definitely noteworthy, and interesting that Newt thinks that Hillary is not "swift-boatable" the way Kerry was. print share
Newt Gingrich: Republicans Ran "Cheap And Nasty" Campaign Against Kerry In 2004 2009
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At any rate, definitely noteworthy, and interesting that Newt thinks that Hillary is not "swift-boatable" the way Kerry was. print share
National 2009
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In two days we had covered something like two hundred and fifty miles in and out of highways and byways, had followed the Thames for its entire boatable length, and had crossed England, -- not a very great undertaking as automobile tours go, but a varied and enjoyable one in spite of the restrictions put upon the free passage of automobiles by the various governing bodies and the indifferent hotel-keepers.
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Delaware is a glorious river; but the Sculkill, being an hundred miles boatable above the falls, and its course north-east toward the fountain of Susquehannah, (that tends to the heart of the province, and both sides our own), it is like to be a great part of the settlement of this age.
Great Epochs in American History, Vol. II The Planting Of The First Colonies: 1562—1733 Various 1885
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Along the level portion of the valley was a boatable channel, and lakes, sometimes a mile or even two miles in breadth, had formed at various points farther south.
Earth as Modified by Human Action, The~ Chapter 04 (historical) 1874
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The trunk, which readers away from boatable waters may need to be informed is an elevation about a foot above the main deck, to afford head-room in the middle of the cabin, had three deck lights, or ports, on each side.
The Yacht Club or The Young Boat-Builder Oliver Optic 1859
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After passing through the locks, we had poled ourselves through the canal here, about half a mile in length, to the boatable part of the river.
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Along the level portion of the valley was a boatable channel, and lakes, sometimes a mile or even two miles in breadth, had formed at various points farther south.
The Earth as Modified by Human Action George P. Marsh 1841
Gammerstang commented on the word boatable
(adjective) - Capable of being navigated by boats. The word originated in America but proved so useful that it has found its way into British English dictionaries. "The river is not boatable for several months in the year."
--M. Schlele De Vere's Americanisms: The English of the New World, 1872
January 16, 2018