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Definition of Handleable
1. a. Capable of being handled.
Definition of Handleable
1. Adjective. Capable of being handled ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Handleable
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Handleable
Literary usage of Handleable
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annual Report by New York Zoological Society, Tennyson Society (1897)
"... or a mile away—but handleable, measurable, and at hand. Of course, this means
breakage and loss in course of time ; but what are they for if not to be ..."
2. The Economic Writings of Sir William Petty: Together with the Observations by William Petty, John Graunt (1899)
"To answer the first reason or pretence of making them, which is, that the said
Pieces might be more bulky, handleable, and the silver in them less apt to be ..."
3. Lectures on the English Language by George Perkins Marsh (1887)
"... to manipulate, and, figuratively, to treat of or discuss; the adjectives
handleable, that which may be handled, handless, without hands, handy, skilful, ..."
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