Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Capable of being sailed on or through; navigable; admitting of being passed by ships.

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

  • adjective Capable of being sailed over; navigable.

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  • adjective nautical navigable

Etymologies

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sail +‎ -able

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Examples

  • One by one, they'd call on us and get us to capsize the boat so we could practice getting it upright and sailable again.

    Me, on a Boat Ulysses 2008

  • One by one, they'd call on us and get us to capsize the boat so we could practice getting it upright and sailable again.

    Archive 2008-05-01 Ulysses 2008

  • The reason for all of the focus on a short-term, imminent threat is because that was what was thought to be far more sailable in public relations terms.

    CNN Transcript Apr 30, 2007 2007

  • Without a doubt, the most sailable in all of the Middle East, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

    CNN Transcript May 21, 2007 2007

  • By 1968 Muhammad Ali was one of the few black heroes who were unas - sailable from the Left.

    1968 the Year that Rocked the World Kurlansky, Mark 2004

  • To be sure, we all need help, but clearly Albright's ship is very much afloat and on course in challenging but sailable waters.

    Inaugural Address 1993

  • -- How to make a sea castle or a fortification _cannon proof_, capable of a thousand men, yet sailable at pleasure to defend a passage, or in an hour's time to divide itself into three ships, as fit and trimmed to sail as before; and even whilst it is

    The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

  • The circumstances were sailable for everybody and the it was a very pleasant group, so I am absolutely satisfied. '

    Sail-World.com USA Latest News 2008

  • She wasn’t The Dark Lady — the crude felucca had no name — but she was sailable and steerable again.

    Ilium Simmons, Dan 1981

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