† unmaniableadj.
Obsolete. rare.
Difficult to handle or control; unmanageable.
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the world > action or operation > difficulty > types of difficulty > [adjective] > difficult or intractable (of things) > relating to ships
unmaniable1594
unmanuable1633
1594 J. Smythe Certen Instr. Militarie 93 The hauing of so many other ranks of piquers before them, with the great length of those weapons in a presse so vnmaniable.
1607 W. Raleigh Lett. (1999) 302 The lesser [ship] will come and goe, leave or take and is yare, whereas the greater is slow, unmanable and ever full of incumbers.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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adj.1594- unseizableness
- unseize
- unseized
- unsel
- unselde
- unseldom
- unsele
- unselect
- unselected
- unselecting
- unselective
- unselectively
- unself
- unself-conscious
- unself-consciously
- unself-consciousness
- unself-pitying
- unself-regarding
- unself-seeking
- unselfchanging
- unselfconscious
- unselfconsciously
- unselfconsciousness
- unselfconsciousnesses
- unselfdelicious