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wadable, wadeable, a.|ˈweɪdəb(ə)l| Also 7 Sc. weadable. [f. wade v. + -able.] That can be waded.
1611Florio, Vadasile, foardable, wadable. 1611Cotgr., Gayer, a Foord, or wadeable passage ouer a riuer. Ibid., Gueable, wadeable; fit, likely, or easie, to be waded ouer. 1621Molle Camerar. Liv. Libr. iv. xx. 313 Vnderstanding that the Marishes were wadeable. 1693J. Fraser in W. Macfarlane's Geogr. Collect. (S.H.S.) II. 218 Severid by a smal streame weadable sometymes when it is low water. 1823Galt R. Gilhaize xxii, As soon as the fugitives were within wadeable reach of the bank, they jumpit out of the boat. 1864Carlyle Fredk. Gt. xvii. vi. (1873) VII. 62 Where the Brook withal is of firmer bottom and more wadeable. |