Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Capable of being sounded.

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

  • adjective Capable of being sounded.

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  • adjective Capable of being sounded, or having its depth gauged.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective (of depth) capable of being sounded or measured for depth

Etymologies

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sound +‎ -able

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Examples

  • Dunbar, a Scots poet contemporary of Henry VII., just a little bit altered by me to make him soundable to your ears.

    An Englishwoman's Love-Letters Anonymous

  • She preferred depths soundable at any moment by the dropping of a foot, and if the foot did not instantly touch bottom she fell into a panic and screamed, which added not a little to the hilarity of their bathes.

    Pearl of Pearl Island John Oxenham 1896

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