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fieldable

adj

Etymology

From field + -able.

  1. derived from *pleh₂-✻ — “field, plain”
  2. inherited from *felþuz✻ — “field”
  3. inherited from *felþu✻
  4. inherited from feld
  5. inherited from feeld
  6. suffixed as fieldable — “field + able”

Definitions

  1. Able to be fielded.

    • Mookie Wilson hit an easily fieldable weak ground ball that rolled between first baseman Bill Buckner's legs […]

  2. Capable of being taken out and used "in the field"

    Capable of being taken out and used "in the field"; portable.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for fieldable. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA