单词 | carriageable |
释义 | carriageableadj. 1. Capable of being carried or transported; easily carried; portable. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > transference > [adjective] > relating to conveying or transporting > carrying > able to be carried portativec1400 portable1454 carryable1563 carriageable1594 tursablec1650 portatile1657 carry-along1939 1594 T. Nashe Vnfortunate Traveller sig. K4v What in the house of any worth was carriage-able, he put vp and went his way. 1642 D. Lupton Warre-like Treat. Pike xi. 147 They [sc. halfe-pikes] being so made that they are fitting to fasten in any earth; and so light that they are carriagable in any place. 1857 J. Ruskin Polit. Econ. Art ii. 101 Works of carriageable art. 2006 U.S. Fed News (Nexis) 14 June Juen Tien Peng of Chung Li, Taiwan, has developed an ornamental design for a carriageable multimedia receiver, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. 2. Of a road, street, or other highway: suitable for wheeled vehicles. Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > road > [adjective] > fit for (spec. type of) traffic cartable1693 carriageable1801 trafficable1845 wheelless1897 motorable1905 1801 G. Baldwin Polit. Recoll. Egypt 112 The road is hard, and the French captain informs me, has been made carriageable. 1872 W. M. Bell Other Countries II. v. 72 In Yedo there are one or two carriageable streets. 1878 Fraser's Mag. Dec. 699/2 Rustem Pasha, the Governor of the Lebanon, has made a fair carriageable way..along the coast between Beyrout and Tripoli. 2015 S. Fachard & D. Pirisino in M. M. Miles Autopsy in Athens xiii. 140/1 The road was carriageable up to Chassia, from where two different routes, including a possible carriageable one, lead to Phyle. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1594 |
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