a. Also 6 assaut-; and see aphet. SAULTABLE. [f. prec. vb. + -ABLE. Cf. It. assaltevole.] Capable of being assaulted, open to assault.
1548. Hall, Chron. (1809), 737. They bet the walles so, with great ordinaunce, that they made the town assautable.
1649. (17 Sept.) Cromwell, Lett. (Carl.). To make breaches assaultable, and by the help of God to storm them.
1829. S. Turner, Hist. Eng., III. II. xix. 589. The place was found not to be assaultable.
