a. Obs. Also 5 feable, feble. [f. FEE sb.2 + -ABLE.] Subject to fees. In quots., That may be taken as a perquisite (see FEE sb.2 8).
1461. Liber Niger, in Househ. Ord. (1790), 73. This sergeaunt capitall Buttler, his fees be delyvered and taken by oversight and record of the countroller, when thinges byn of wyne and vesseals feble or perused. Ibid., 95. Item, Noe fees to be taken untill the offices be furnisshed of empty pipes, hoggesheddes, fattes, roundelettes; the remanent to be feable. Ibid. The panyers of sea-fisshe to be feeable; and their fees to be divided to the yoman groomes and pages.
1847–78. Halliwell (citing Hall), Feable, subject to fees.
