a. [f. CATCH v. + -ABLE.] That can be caught.
a. 1695. Ld. Halifax, Moral Th. & Refl. (1750), 122 (T.). The Eagerness of a Knave maketh him often as catchable, as Ignorance maketh a Fool.
1866. Carlyle, Remin. (1881), II. 189. Both catchable and eligible.
1870. Law Rep., Com. Pleas, V. 670. A migratory fish … in a catchable and marketable state.
