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† ˈlabourable, a. Obs.
[a. F. labourable (1409 in Hatz.-Darm.) arable, f. labourer to labour.]
Capable of being laboured or worked.
1481Caxton Godfrey lxvii. (1893) 112 A londe..ful of..good feldes labourable. 1545in Archiv Stud. neu. Spr. XCIX. 23, I am Sonday moste honorable: That day all thynges laborable Ought for to rest. 1611Cotgr., Labourable, labourable, workable, fit to be wrought on; also, nauigable. 1693Evelyn De la Quint. Compl. Gard. I. 21 Three Foot of good Mould, very soft or labourable on the Top. 1738Warburton Div. Leg. II. 274 To drain the swampy Marshes of this vast extended Level: and to render the whole Labourable. |