Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Capable of being handled.

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  • adjective Capable of being handled.

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  • adjective Capable of being handled

Etymologies

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handle +‎ -able

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Examples

  • Cool until handleable, then slip the skins off the garlic, pull stems off the chiles and roughly chop (no need to remove the seeds).

    Heather Taylor: Chef Speak: Rick Bayless 2010

  • Cool until handleable, then slip the skins off the garlic, pull stems off the chiles and roughly chop no need to remove the seeds.

    Heather Taylor: Chef Speak: Rick Bayless Heather Taylor 2010

  • Cool until handleable, then slip the skins off the garlic, pull stems off the chiles and roughly chop (no need to remove the seeds).

    Heather Taylor: Chef Speak: Rick Bayless 2010

  • After wasting good pack space lumping that thing around I took someone's cunning advice and cut the guide into easily handleable sections which then got lost at different points in the pack along with the remains of yesterday's cheese sandwiches and underwear.

    Archive 2008-04-01 2008

  • No, they are not obedience-trained Golden Retrievers, but they are handleable, friendly, affectionate, and love interaction with their people.

    cattle:aurochs::dogs:wolves? 2007

  • The other ways I'd heard about involved machine knitting to condense the yarn package to more handleable proportionsor even just crocheting a long chain.

    Fuzzarelly FUZZARELLY 2007

  • And if the threat remains handleable by the force structure and the force size and the force composition that we have in Afghanistan now, then we'll stay with that.

    CNN Transcript Apr 5, 2002 2002

  • MR. JENNINGS: Yes I was going to say, I just suddenly remembered, somebody told me, Heather has a handleable question.

    Abc Childrens Questions With The President ITY National Archives 1994

  • It was really too cruel and not handleable when it all stopped in one day, and she was back in her kitchen in Brookline and the phone wasn't ringing and there was no schedule and no staff and no Secret Service.

    What it Takes: The Way to the White House 1992

  • Cool until handleable, then slip the skins off the garlic, pull stems off the chiles and roughly chop (no need to remove the seeds).

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com 2010

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