Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Capable of being conveyed in a carriage or carriages.
  • Passable by carriages.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective rare Passable by carriages; that can be conveyed in carriages.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Passable by carriages.
  • adjective Capable of being conveyed in carriages.

Etymologies

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carriage +‎ -able

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Examples

  • Tubbernacul in tipherairy, sons, travel — lers in company and their carriageable tochters, tanks tight anne thynne for her contractations tugowards his personeel.

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • The road was more like a stone-quarry than a carriageable public highway, so encumbered was it with granite fragments, heaped ready for top-dressing and finishing; and the bridge led on to a raised embankment, coming to a sudden fissure, where the old coach-road crossed it.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866 Various

  • At the lowest computation, the mules would do four or five times as much work if they were set to draw any kind of cart -- however rough -- on a carriageable road.

    Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern Edward Burnett Tylor

  • You always see him with his children and his wife; he drives her and her baby up and down along the only carriageable road of

    The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) 1907

  • You always see him with his children and his wife; he drives her and her baby up and down along the only carriageable road of Lucca: so set down that piece of domestic life on the bright side in the broad charge against married authors; now do.

    The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Kenyon, Frederic G 1898

  • Other cities, indeed, contain more works of carriageable art, but none contain so much of the glorious local art, and of the springs and sources of art, which can by no means be made subjects of package or porterage, nor, I grieve to say, of salvage.

    A Joy For Ever (And Its Price in the Market) John Ruskin 1859

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