fishable
Able to be fished legally
Adjective
- Able to be fished legally
- Able to be fished in, able to be used for fishing
- Able to be used for fishing.
- Even if it could be salvaged, it would have to almost entirely be remade before it was fishable again. - 1993, Dana Stabenow, Dead in the Water, →ISBN, page 77:
Origin
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *péysks Proto-Germanic *fiskaz Proto-West Germanic *fisk Old English fisċ Middle English fisch English fish Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English fishable From fish + -able.