drawableadj.
/ˈdrɔː(r)əbl/, U.S. /ˈdrɔəb(ə)l/, /ˈdrɑəb(ə)l/ Suitable for or capable of being drawn (in various senses of draw v.).
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the world > movement > impelling or driving > pushing and pulling > [adjective] > relating to or used in pulling > pulled > able to be
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c1443 R. Pecock Reule of Crysten Religioun (1927) 484 (MED) As a general þing drawable into a special.
1647 H. More Philos. Poems ii. iii. ii. ii Not fixt to ought, but by a Magick might Drawable here and there.
1655 T. Lamb Truth Prevailing 87 The conclusion otherwise being no wayes drawable from the premises.
1706 E. Fowler Refl. upon Late Exam. of Disc. of Descent Man-Christ Jesus 17 I know no Conclusion drawable from a company of bare Questions.
1830 J. Bentham Constit. Code in Wks. (1843) IX. ii. xi. 438 Large fire-arms, not portable, but only drawable: as cannon and mortars, with their carriages and ammunition.
1867 H. Kingsley Silcote (1876) xv. 94 Lines..which he recognised as drawable.
1917 House & Garden Feb. 45/3 Glass curtains add privacy. They can be drawable or attached to the doors.
1993 G. F. Newman Law & Order (rev. ed.) 171 Money was drawable from the Informers' Fund by detectives only where it related to a job.
2000 R. T. Schaub & W. E. Rast in G. Philip & D. Baird Ceramics & Change iv. 73/2 Every sherd that was drawable (i.e. having both stance and diameter determinable) was drawn in pencil at 1:1.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2022).
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