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  • adjective Alternative spelling of carriable.
  • noun Alternative spelling of carriable.

Etymologies

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carry +‎ -able

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Examples

  • He washed the dishes, foraged dry wood, mended a broken pack-strap, put an edge on the butcher-knife and camp-axe, and repacked the picks and shovels into a more carryable parcel.

    LIKE ARGUS OF THE ANCIENT TIMES 2010

  • Coca Cola proudly announced today its new special Classic Coke air container, a 25-pound backpack-carryable tank of pure Rocky Mountain air that will last most of a day and will sell for $5 a pound; only $75 for a full tank.

    Catchin' Up on da-Noozzzz The Daily Growler 2006

  • So, I get loud sterile tone in a conveniently carryable form factor.

    Another cute little guitar amp 2005

  • O.K., we can chop him into eight or ten easy-to-manage parts using the kitchen Ginsu knives; we stuff each carryable body part into a pillowcase dark-colored, so as to not reveal blood seeping through; tie each pillowcase to a broom…

    Y.P.R.: Dear Sally Field's Agent 2003

  • O.K., we can chop him into eight or ten easy-to-manage parts using the kitchen Ginsu knives; we stuff each carryable body part into a pillowcase dark-colored, so as to not reveal blood seeping through; tie each pillowcase to a broom…

    Y.P.R.: . . . And the Horse You Rode in On 2003

  • O.K., we can chop him into eight or ten easy-to-manage parts using the kitchen Ginsu knives; we stuff each carryable body part into a pillowcase dark-colored, so as to not reveal blood seeping through; tie each pillowcase to a broom…

    Y.P.R.: Dear N.Y.T.B.R. Pt. V 2003

  • It took more than nineteen questions, but he finally learned what they wanted: There was a distant watermelon they dearly desired, but it was too heavy for them to carry whole, and it would spoil if they tried to cut it into carryable pieces.

    Up In A Heaval Anthony, Piers 2002

  • He washed the dishes, foraged dry wood, mended a broken pack-strap, put an edge on the butcher-knife and camp-axe, and repacked the picks and shovels into a more carryable parcel.

    Like Argus of the Ancient Times 1918

  • He washed the dishes, foraged dry wood, mended a broken pack-strap, put an edge on the butcher-knife and camp-axe, and repacked the picks and shovels into a more carryable parcel.

    The Red One Jack London 1896

  • The company has attracted criticism in the past for claiming unverified associations with literary and artistic greats (Hemingway and Picasso among them), yet there is no denying that since the mid-Nineties, Moleskine has pioneered a market for covetable, carryable stationery.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010

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