motorableadj.
/ˈməʊt(ə)rəbl/, U.S. /ˈmoʊdərəb(ə)l/ Of a road, etc.: suitable for or usable by a motor vehicle; passable by motor vehicle. Also, of a distance: able to be covered efficiently or comfortably in a motor vehicle.
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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
1905 South Wales (Great Western Railway Co.) xii. 61 The road between Haverfordwest and the ‘village-city’ is motorable.
1920 A. L. Bagley Holiday Rambles N. Wales 178 This is certainly not a motorable road.
a1935 F. Ponsonby Recoll. Three Reigns (1951) xxii. 315 Everything was arranged as the King wished, and a French Army Corps within motorable distance was selected.
1953 X. Fielding Stronghold 93 The only motorable highway in the whole of Sphakia province.
1972 P. M. Hubbard Whisper in Glen iii. 25 Roads which were a little alarming but just about motorable.
1999 Rising Nepal 6 Nov. 3/6 A motorable road..and drainage were also constructed.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.1905- to do one's sums
- to do one's thing
- to do one's time
- to do one's top
- to do one's worst
- to do oneself a bit of no good
- to do oneself in a person's mercy
- to do oneself justice
- to do oneself to a person's mercy
- to do or be…gladly
- to do or die
- to do or have diligence
- to do or make a blenk or blench
- to do or make cost
- to do or make costs
- to do or make deray to
- to do or make gree
- to do or make ligeance
- to do or make one's ligeance
- to do or make the cost
- to do or make the costs
- to do or pay one's devoir
- to do or pay one's devoirs (to some one
- to do or perform wonders
- to do or put up, to let down hair