Obs.; also 6–7 batable. [f. bat- (see BATTEN v.) + -ABLE.] Of pasture-land: Good for the sustenance of flocks and herds; feeding, fattening; fertile in pasture.
1570–87. Holinshed, Scot. Chron. (1806), I. 8. There is good grasse and verie batable for their heards.
1589. Fleming, Virg. Georg., II. 27. What ground also is battable, or fat and lustie soile.
1621. Burton, Anat. Mel., Democr. 53 a. Massinissa made many inward parts of Barbary … fruitfull and battable by this meanes.
1641. Heylin, Help to Hist. (1680), 491. Grounds as battable and rich for the feeding of cattle.
