rideableadj.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Chevauchable, rideable; easie to be rid on.

1820 L. Hunt Indicator 5 Apr. 207 So built with muscle was his chest, So rideable his back.

1850 F. E. Smedley Frank Fairlegh xxxvii. 307 Is there anything rideable to be hired in Hillingford?

1897 Cyclists' Touring Club Gaz. Sept. 398 The tyre when pumped remained rideable for two or three hours.

1915 E. Hueston Prudence of Parsonage ii. 49 She had ridden a great deal while they were at Exminster, a neighbor being well supplied with rideable horses.

1977 Child Devel. 48 1574/1 Sharon's word choochoo... referred to..a large plastic ridable train, and to the train her father took to work.

2002 A. Fuller Don't let's go to Dogs Tonight 112 Mum rides ahead on her big bay thoroughbred, an ex-trotter rescued from an abusive home and made rideable again under Mum's patient training.

1637 S. Rutherford Lett. (1664) cxxii. 234 Till the water fall and the foord be ridable.

a1709 J. Lister Autobiogr. (1842) 45 A man..who had..known when the water was rideable.

1847 R. S. Surtees Hawbuck Grange xii. 231 If a large extent of rideable woodland, with wildness and boldness at every step, has any charms for fox-hunters, Abbeycroft Chase ought to rank high.

1860 C. S. Forbes Iceland 103 As for the road, it was..in some places more rideable than in others.

1891 Field 19 Dec. 957/1 The grass pastures..were far from rideable.

1916 E. C. Booth Fondie xviii. 78 Blanche..wandered in company with the bicycle bell along Whivvle's least rideable lanes.

1965 Times 12 June 11/5 Unfortunately the Bridlepaths in other parts of Sussex are anything but rideable.

2000 Snowboard UK Jan. 98 After climbing about 200 metres vertically we began to see short lines of rideable, windpacked snow.

1901 Fores's Sporting Notes & Sketches 18 106 A look-out man in a tree waved a flag, indicating that a ‘ridable’ boar had broken from the end of the cover and had received enough law.

1910 Blackwood's Mag. Apr. 557/1 We were a long time before we found a rideable pig.

c1937 D. Garforth-Bles in Daily Tel. (2006) 7 Oct. 27 A sounder [herd] of pig broke between us and the heat on the right. There were three rideable boar amongst them and Denis and I were on the largest.

1793 M. Berry Let. 10 Oct. in Extr. Jrnls. & Corr. Miss Berry (1866) 395 I calculate that she will have it [sc. a mare] by Saturday at farthest, and I hope, in good rideability.

1899 Hub 8 July 322/2 The relation of an up gradient to a down as regards ridability.

1949 Math. Tables & Other Aids Computation 3 511 Other fields for which the computer has so far been used include rideability analysis of automobiles and railroad cars.

1983 A. C. Yu tr. C. Wu Journey to West (1984) IV. xciii. 308 With three coins you buy an old donkey And brag about its ridability!

2005 Hot Bike Mar. 196 Use results in increases in horsepower, torque, and overall rideability.