runnableadj.

1845 New Sporting Mag. Nov. 317 He..is able to report with certainty to the master at the meet whether it is a runable stag, fit as well for the table as the chase, that may be roused, or whether he is unfit for sport.

1883 R. Jefferies Red Deer ii. 33 His coat was in perfect condition,..and he was a runnable deer, that is, of age and size sufficient for the chase.

1931 Times Lit. Suppl. 3 Sept. 659/1 The harbourer's business is to discover..the whereabouts of a ‘warrantable’ or ‘runnable’ stag.

1997 P. M. W. Thody Don't do It ii. 111 The runnable stag is fed to the hounds, not to the men who have pursued it.

1860 Rep. Select Comm. Lords Salmon Fishings 198 in Parl. Papers (H.C. 456) XIX. 1 Now-a-days, we have rivers a shorter time in a runable state.

1908 F. S. Dellenbaugh Canyon Voy. ix. 122 Bad as they were, they were nevertheless runable, and away we dashed with breakneck speed.

1944 Pop. Sci. Monthly June 144/1 When a car that is runable has you stumped, I've always found the best thing to do is run it and see what happens.

1985 New Yorker 26 Aug. 28/3 I've found a much more runnable house, in Battersea.

1990 Times 6 Sept. 34/8 The race is a classic... It is high and hard, just the way it should be, but still very runnable.

2010 Prince George (Brit. Columbia) Citizen (Nexis) 22 Mar. (Sports section) 12 I climbed the trail for approximately 20 minutes and came out at the top to discover some nice trail that was runnable.

1964 Proc. Internat. Data Processing Conf. 288 There exists also the possibility within the Data Division that..data described for a particular computer may be runnable..on another computer.

1975 Jrnl. Marketing Res. 12 215/1 The program..should be runable on any computer with a fortran compiler.

1989 UNIX Rev. Feb. 79/1 Translating your code into runable binaries.

2007 R. Love Linux Syst. Programming vi. 162 Given only one runnable process.., the job of a process scheduler is trivial.