mineableadj.

Brit.

/ˈmʌɪnəbl/, U.S.

/ˈmaɪnəb(ə)l/

Forms: 1500s myneable, 1500s– minable, 1600s 1800s– mineable.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mine v., -able suffix.

Etymology: < mine v. + -able suffix.

Able to be mined; (of a mineral, etc.) worth mining.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > attack > action or state of siege or blockade > [adjective] > capable of being mined

mineable1570

society > occupation and work > industry > mining > [adjective] > mined > capable of being

workable1672

mineable1893

strippable1975

1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Ai^v/1 Myneable, fossilis.

1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 144 He..beganne to vndermine it (finding the earth all about very minable).

1589 True Coppie Disc. Late Voy. Spaine & Portingale (1881) 60 General Norris having..found one place thereof myneable,..did presently set work~men in hand withal.

1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. xxiv. 864/2 One place was found mineable, where the Generall the fourth day of this siege set men on worke.

1647 J. Sprigge Anglia Rediviva ii. iii. 82 Being well informed that the ground wheron it stood was minable.

1893 Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch 11 Sept. Coal is being found in mineable deposits in all parts of the world.

1948 A. L. Toenges et al. (title) Minable reserves, petrography, chemical characteristics, and washability tests of coal occurring in the Coos Bay coal field, Coos County, Oreg.

1972 Nature 14 Apr. 332/1 And is it likely that economically minable lead ores are equally distributed between North America and the rest of the world?

1991 RTZ Rev. Dec. 5/1 Two large gold deposits..containing about 50 million tonnes of ore grading just over one gram of gold per tonne and mineable amounts of silver.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	mineable
释义	mineableadj. Brit. /ˈmʌɪnəbl/, U.S. /ˈmaɪnəb(ə)l/ Forms: 1500s myneable, 1500s– minable, 1600s 1800s– mineable. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mine v., -able suffix. Etymology: < mine v. + -able suffix. Able to be mined; (of a mineral, etc.) worth mining. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > attack > action or state of siege or blockade > [adjective] > capable of being mined mineable1570 society > occupation and work > industry > mining > [adjective] > mined > capable of being workable1672 mineable1893 strippable1975 1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Ai^v/1 Myneable, fossilis. 1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 144 He..beganne to vndermine it (finding the earth all about very minable). 1589 True Coppie Disc. Late Voy. Spaine & Portingale (1881) 60 General Norris having..found one place thereof myneable,..did presently set work~men in hand withal. 1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. xxiv. 864/2 One place was found mineable, where the Generall the fourth day of this siege set men on worke. 1647 J. Sprigge Anglia Rediviva ii. iii. 82 Being well informed that the ground wheron it stood was minable. 1893 Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch 11 Sept. Coal is being found in mineable deposits in all parts of the world. 1948 A. L. Toenges et al. (title) Minable reserves, petrography, chemical characteristics, and washability tests of coal occurring in the Coos Bay coal field, Coos County, Oreg. 1972 Nature 14 Apr. 332/1 And is it likely that economically minable lead ores are equally distributed between North America and the rest of the world? 1991 RTZ Rev. Dec. 5/1 Two large gold deposits..containing about 50 million tonnes of ore grading just over one gram of gold per tonne and mineable amounts of silver. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1570
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