2. Adjective. (context: of a watercourse) That can be navigated by boat. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Runnable
1. fit for hunting [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Runnable
Literary usage of Runnable
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Modernism and Romance by Rolfe Arnold Scott-James (1908)
"I wish I could suggest the strange effect of the lay of the " runnable stag."
The following stanzas will give but the faintest idea, for not only does the ..."
2. Modernism and Romance by Rolfe Arnold Scott-James (1908)
"I wish I could suggest the strange effect of the lay of the " runnable stag."
The following stanzas will give but the faintest idea, for not only does the ..."
3. Hunting by Henry Charles FitzRoy Somerset Beaufort, Mowbray Morris, Edward William Lewis Davis, Digby Collins, Alfred Edward Thomas Watson (1886)
"runnable : a deer tit to be hunted ; in the case of the stag, this is at five
... WARRANTABLE : see runnable. WHELP : a hound puppy at a very tender age. ..."
4. Hunting by Henry Charles Fitz Roy Somerset Beaufort, Mowbray Morris (1889)
"runnable : a deer fit to be hunted ; in the case of the stag, this is at five
... WARRANTABLE : see runnable. WHELP : a hound puppy at a very tender age. ..."
5. Shropshire Word-book: A Glossary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Etc., Used by Georgina Frederica Jackson (1879)
"runnable, adv. by rote ; fluently, as of a repetition lesson well prepared or
well said.—PULVERBATCH. ' Billy, han yo' gotten yore spellin' runnable, ..."
6. Adventure Guide to New Hampshire by Elizabeth L. Dugger (2002)
"The nearly 10 miles of runnable water on the Sugar River is good to know about
because the ... It's not runnable close to Lake Sunapee, which it drains, ..."
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