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Definition of Catchable
1. a. Capable of being caught.
Definition of Catchable
1. Adjective. That can be caught. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Catchable
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Catchable
Literary usage of Catchable
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1819)
"We think nothing of them, except as things catchable, and perhaps as things eatable.
Indeed it would be a cruel piece of mockery in a bloody tormentor, ..."
2. A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson, John Walker, Robert S. Jameson (1828)
"... a short interval of action ; anything that catches ; a small swift sailing
ship ; often written ketch. catchable, (k^tsh'-a-bl) a. Liable to be caught. ..."
3. The Cornhill Magazine by George Smith (1873)
"I had caught everything in the shape of a catchable fish that swims in fresh
water, from a gudgeon to a salmon, and had made no mean bag betimes of pollock, ..."
4. Studies of a Biographer by Sir Leslie Stephen (1902)
"Most children have a certain taste for ponds and rocks, as offering romantic
chances of dirt and danger, and as the habitat of things catchable, and partly, ..."
5. The Monthly Review by Charles William Wason (1841)
"Let the noble poet's mind and genius, and not his mannerism, which is catchable,
but ought to be avoided, be deeply studied ; and then, while we shall have ..."
6. The Life and Letters of Sir George Savile, Bart., First Marquis of Halifax &c by Helen Charlotte Foxcroft (1898)
"The eagerness of a knave maketh him often as catchable as ignorance maketh a fool.
No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a ..."
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