a. [f. KILL v. + -ABLE.]
1. Fit to be killed for food or other use.
1817–8. Cobbett, Resid. U. S. (1822), 91. What animal produces flesh meat like the hog?… The animal killable at all ages.
1823. Col. Hawker, Diary (1893), I. 267. I … honestly bagged 46 killable trout.
2. Capable of being killed; easy to kill.
1823. Mirror, I. 296/1. That killable species of ghost that could be shot with a sixpence.
1877. T. A. Trollope, Life Pius IX., III. viii. II. 84. The experience … would have gone far to kill any man killable by disappointment and sorrow.
