a. Hist. [f. WARD sb.2 + -ABLE.] Liable to pay castle-guard or castle-ward.

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c. 1620.  in Sussex Archæol. Collect., VI. 226. The Parsonadge … wth too akers of the Mannor land, called the Wren Wish, is Wardable as the Mannor is.

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1888.  Archæol. Rev., March, 58. In Pevensey Rape much of the land round the Castle was wardable, i.e., paid Castle-guard, or Castle-ward.

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