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▪ I. † ˈbattable, a. Obs.
Also 6–7 batable.
[f. bat- (see batten v.) + -able.]
Of pasture-land: Good for the sustenance of flocks and herds; feeding, fattening; fertile in pasture.
1570–87Holinshed Scot. Chron. (1806) I. 8 There is good grasse and verie batable for their heards. 1589Fleming Virg. Georg. ii. 27 What ground also is battable, or fat and lustie soile. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. Democr. 53 a, Massinissa made many inward parts of Barbary..fruitfull and battable by this meanes. 1641Heylin Help to Hist. (1680) 491 Grounds as battable and rich for the feeding of cattle.
▪ II. † battable, a.2 Obs.
[a. OF. batable, battable, f. batt-re to beat; see -able.]
Of metals: That may be hammered or beaten out, malleable.
1601Holland Pliny II. 505 The other sort of copper..yeeldeth to the hammer and will be drawne out, whereupon some call it Ductile, i. battable. [1611Cotgr., Batable, beatable.] |