husbandable

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

husband +‎ -able

Adjective[edit]

husbandable (comparative more husbandable, superlative most husbandable)

  1. Capable of being husbanded, or managed with economy.
    • 1881, John Webb Probyn, Systems of Land Tenure in Various Countries:
      husbandable land

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for husbandable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)