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gettable, a.|ˈgɛtəb(ə)l| Also 6 gettabill, -ible, 8–9 getable. [f. get v. + -able.] That can be got.
1555Extracts Aberd. Reg. (1844) I. 289 Gyf the same be..nocht gettabill in the sam forme as it ves. a1605Montgomerie Sonn. xlix, Wald God if it wer gettible for geir! 1611Cotgr., Gaignable, gettable..to be got. 1769H. Walpole Corr. (1837) II. 432, I..shall employ a little collector to get me all [prints] that are getable. 1796Coleridge Lett. (1895) 184, I wish that little cottage by the road⁓side were gettable. 1867Furnivall Babees Bk. Introd. 74 Getting all that was gettable out of them. 1871Echo 21 June, Sufficient economically gettable coal exists in Great Britain and Ireland to last from 800 to 1,000 years. 1882Ogilvie, Gettable, Getable. 1884Cassell, Getable, Gettable. |