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Definition of Floodable
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Floodable
Literary usage of Floodable
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Practical Shipbuilding: A Treatise on the Structural Design and Building of by A. Campbell Holms (1918)
"Again, in the case of a mixed-service vessel of 571 feet, the length of the actual
compartments must not exceed half the floodable length ; if purely a ..."
2. Shipbuilding Cyclopedia: A Reference Book Covering Definitions of by Bibber Webster, J. L. Bates, Stephen McKay Phillips, Alfred Henry Haag (1920)
"They also established the floodable length at any point of the vessel. ...
The bulkheads are then placed to subdivide the floodable length in accordance ..."
3. International Conference on Safety of Life at Sea: Messages from the by Andrew Furuseth, International Seamen's Union of America (1914)
"floodable LENGTH. The floodable length at any point of the length of a vessel
... This floodable length for a given point in a vessel with a continuous ..."
4. The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and by Abraham Clark Freeman (1909)
"In order to make a stream navigable by the public, it is not enough that it is
floodable. It must be a public highway. To be a public highway it must have a ..."
5. The Argentine Republic: Its Development and Progress by Pierre Denis (1922)
"... based upon observation of the pluviometric scales of the upper river, which
is equally valuable to the navigators and to breeders in the floodable area. ..."
6. Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archeological Society by James Simpson, Richard Saul Ferguson, William Gershom Collingwood (1902)
"The Ambleside camp is placed right at the head of Windermere on low, almost
floodable land. Immediately to the north of the camp is some rocky, ..."
7. Northmost Australia: Three Centuries of Exploration, Discovery, and by Robert Logan Jack (1921)
"At Camp 45, which was in floodable country, the ground was alive with CATERPILLARS.
This LARGE RIVER (which was named the MACMILLAN, ..."
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