walkableadj.

1736 T. Sheridan Let. 12 May in Lett. Swift (1768) VI. cxx. 135 Our country is now in high beauty, and every inch of it walkable.

1736 J. Swift Let. to Sheridan 15 May in Misc. (1745) X. xxviii. 137 We were much disappointed, that..your (now) walkable Roads had not rous'd your Spirits.

1795 S. J. Pratt Gleanings through Wales I. ix. 100 The environs are neither barren nor fertile, and the only walks, or in truth walkable places, are those at the end of the town.

1822 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 12 727 The square of St. Mark's..is the only walkable spot in Venice.

1887 Taken-in 58 The deck was not walkable, being wet and slushy.

1905 Lincoln (Nebraska) Evening News 21 Oct. 3/1 Soon an entire block or a whole street has been made attractive and walkable by new pavements of brick, stone or cement.

1958 Times 15 Dec. 9/6 It has no footpath and is so narrow that one has to jump off it when cars come along. It lacks a walkable grass verge.

1995 Canada's Pride: On Trapline Spring 12/4 In logged out areas, most terrain is not walkable by humans because of too many trees laying around and ground badly broken by heavy machinery.

2004 S. Dalton Our Overweight Children ix. 216 People who live in counties and cities with walkable neighborhoods walk more and weigh less than their car-dependent counterparts.

1799 R. Southey Select. from Lett. (1856) I. 81 Eleven miles is a very walkable distance.

1886 Syracuse (N.Y.) Daily Standard 31 July 2/4 (advt.) Any day in the week the farms within walkable distance of a city or village are likely to be overran with gun tramps, shooting anything that has wings.

1923 Boston Transcript in Nebraska State Jrnl. 27 Oct. 2/3 To Let—Pleasant bungalow: smellable distance of sea. Walkable to station.

1964 J. D. MacDonald Deep Blue Good-bye vi. 80 Everything, including the public beach, was walkable.

1996 L. Al-Hafidh et al. Europe: Rough Guide (ed. 3) ii. x. 498 The dramatic Cheddar Gorge, formed by the collapse of a cave system, is walkable from here.

1863 F. S. L. Osgood Poetry of Flowers 201 Children gleam among the shocks; and even the un-walkable infant sits propped with sheaves.]

1886 R. D. Blackmore Springhaven xx, in Harper's Mag. Aug. 405/6 Mrs. Stubbard came quite alone, for her walkable children—as she called them—were all up at the battery.

1943 G. G. Coulton Fourscore Years ii. 10 For about two years..I was the youngest walkable child.

1973 R. A. W. Hughes Wooden Shepherdess xxxvi. 249 Picnics were better than sitting idle in teacherless schools, and day after day the Yard was emptied entirely of walkable children—except for Brian.