a. (UN-1 7 b.)
1602. Carew, Cornwall, 105 b. They feed on salt vnmarchantable Pilchard.
1722. Lond. Gaz., No. 6042/6. Wines … corrupt, or unmerchantable.
1763. Brit. Mag., IV. 174. Damaged and unmerchantable wines.
1818. Colebrooke, Import Colonial Corn, 9. A permission to dispose of his goods … before they are … rendered unmerchantable by decay.
1896. Law Times Rep., LXXIII. 649/1. So damaged by water as to be unmerchantable as dates.
