Definition of Handleable

1. a. Capable of being handled.

Definition of Handleable

1. Adjective. Capable of being handled ¹

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Definition of Handleable

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Handleable

handkerchief
handkerchief codes
handkerchiefless
handkerchiefs
handkerchieves
handlable
handlamp
handlamps
handlanger
handlangers
handle
handle-bars
handle with kid gloves
handleability
handleable (current term)
handlebar
handlebar moustache
handlebar moustaches
handlebar mustache
handlebar mustaches
handlebars
handlebodies
handlebody
handled
handled the ball
handleless
handler
handlers
handles

Literary usage of Handleable

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Annual Report by New York Zoological Society, Tennyson Society (1897)
"... or a mile away—but handleable, measurable, and at hand. Of course, this means breakage and loss in course of time ; but what are they for if not to be ..."

2. The Economic Writings of Sir William Petty: Together with the Observations by William Petty, John Graunt (1899)
"To answer the first reason or pretence of making them, which is, that the said Pieces might be more bulky, handleable, and the silver in them less apt to be ..."

3. Lectures on the English Language by George Perkins Marsh (1887)
"... to manipulate, and, figuratively, to treat of or discuss; the adjectives handleable, that which may be handled, handless, without hands, handy, skilful, ..."

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