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Definition of Killable

1. Adjective. Fit to kill, especially for food.

Definition of Killable

1. Adjective. Fit to be killed, especially as a source of food ¹

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Definition of Killable

1. kill [adj] - See also: kill

Lexicographical Neighbors of Killable

Literary usage of Killable

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Seal and Salmon Fisheries and General Resources of Alaska by David Starr Jordan, Henry Wood Elliott, Washburn Maynard, Sheldon Jackson, William Gouverneur Morris, Ivan Petroff, Charles Haskins Townsend, Frederick William True, John J. Brice, Leonhard Stejneger (1898)
"About June 10-12 the young killable males began hauling out in goodly numbers, but at no time during the whole season of 1894 were there as many seals on ..."

2. Seal and Salmon Fisheries and General Resources of Alaska by David Starr Jordan, Henry Wood Elliott, Washburn Maynard, Sheldon Jackson, William Gouverneur Morris, Ivan Petroff, Charles Haskins Townsend, Frederick William True, John J. Brice, Leonhard Stejneger (1898)
"About June 10-12 the young killable males began hauling out in goodly numbers, but at no time during the whole season of 1894 were there as many seals on ..."

3. Fur Seal Arbitration: Proceedings of the Tribunal of Arbitration, Convened by Bering Sea Tribunal of Arbitration (1895)
"The first killing of fur-seals by the lessees was on the 6th of June and the scarcity of killable seals was apparent to all. I he season closed on the 20th ..."

4. Observations on the Fur Seals of the Pribilof Islands: Preliminary Report by David Starr Jordan, Leonhard Hess Stejneger, Frederic Augustus Lucas (1896)
"Decrease in numbers of killable seals is not a cause in itself. ... The number of killable Reals was probably fewer in than at any period before or since. ..."

5. Report on the Condition of the Fur-seal Fisheries of the Pribylov Islands in by Henry Wood Elliott, Bering Sea Tribunal of Arbitration (1893)
"In 1872 the killable seals were permitted to " haul up '' in every sense of the word; they hauled out far inland from the sea; in 1890, the few killable ..."

6. A Statement Submitted in Re the Fur-seal Herd of Alaska to the House by Henry Wood Elliott (1912)
"killable seals? Mr. ELLIOTT. I mean killable seals—everything he could find ... Do you think all the killable seals should be taken for the good of the herd ..."

7. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1897)
"The greater proportional lalling-off of the bachelors, or killable males, was expected, and is the result of the pelagic killing of 1892- 94, during which ..."

8. Our Vanishing Wild Life: Its Extermination and Preservation by William Temple Hornaday (1913)
"There arc to-day only two localities in the four states that still think they have killable sheep, in which it is worth while to go sheep- hunting. ..."

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