a. Also 7 Sc. weadable. [f. WADE v. + -ABLE.] That can be waded.
1611. Florio, Vadasile, foardable, wadable.
1611. Congr., Gayer, a Foord, or wadeable passage ouer a riuer. Ibid., Gueable, wadeable; fit, likely, or easie, to be waded ouer.
1621. Molle, Camerar. Liv. Libr., IV. xx. 313. Vnderstanding that the Marishes were wadeable.
1693. J. Fraser, in W. Macfarlane’s Geogr. Collect. (S.H.S.), II. 218. Severid by a smal streame weadable sometymes when it is low water.
1823. Galt, R. Gilhaize, xxii. As soon as the fugitives were within wadeable reach of the bank, they jumpit out of the boat.
1854. Weekly Spectator (Hamilton, ON), 16 March, 8/2. The city streets, with the exception of King Street, which is really wadeable, all look like the bottoms of muddy canals from which the water had been let off.
1864. Carlyle, Fredk. Gt., XVII. vi. (1873), VII. 62. Where the Brook withal is of firmer bottom and more wadeable.
