holdable

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English

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Etymology

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From hold +‎ -able.

Adjective

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holdable (comparative more holdable, superlative most holdable)

  1. That may be held.
    • 2017, Paul Kockelman, The Art of Interpretation in the Age of Computation, page 113:
      Bones and stones, if you can forgive this vulgar formulation, are both holdable and beholdable.