Navigable
['nævɪgəb(ə)l] or ['nævɪɡəbl]
Definition
(adj.) able to be sailed on or through safely; 'navigable waters'; 'a navigable channel' .
Checker: Stan--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Capable of being navigated; deep enough and wide enough to afford passage to vessels; as, a navigable river.
Editor: Ronda
Examples
- The Huron River, emptying into Lake Erie, was navigable within a few miles of the village, and provided an admirable outlet. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The last three are navigable streams at all seasons. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- In Bengal, the Ganges, and several other great rivers, form a great number of navigable canals, in the same manner as the Nile does in Egypt. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Even if the canal had proven a success, so far as to be navigable for steamers, it could not have been of much advantage to us. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Admiral Porter explored this waterway as far as Deer Creek on the 14th of March, and reported it navigable. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The intervening land is cut up by bayous filled from the river in high water--many of them navigable for steamers. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- When a navigable cut or canal has been once made, the management of it becomes quite simple and easy, and it is reducible to strict rule and method. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- But Muscle Shoals is not navigable, and below them again is another shoal which also obstructs navigation. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I also recommend making the Schuylkill completely navigable. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- But America, an immense territory, favoured by nature with all advantages of climate, soils, great navigable rivers, lakes, &c. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- With Fort Henry in our hands we had a navigable stream open to us up to Muscle Shoals, in Alabama. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- His lands are on navigable water, communicating with the Delaware, and but about 16 miles from this city. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
Editor: Ronda