a. Obs. [a. F. labourable (1409 in Hatz.-Darm.) arable, f. labourer to LABOUR.] Capable of being labored or worked.
1481. Caxton, Godfrey, lxvii. (1893), 112. A londe … ful of … good feldes labourable.
1545. in Archiv Stud. neu. Spr., XCIX. 23. I am Sonday moste honorable: That day all thynges laborable Ought for to rest.
1611. Cotgr., Labourable, labourable, workable, fit to be wrought on; also, nauigable.
1693. Evelyn, De la Quint. Compl. Gard., I. 21. Three Foot of good Mould, very soft or labourable on the Top.
1738. Warburton, Div. Legat., II. 274. To drain the swampy Marshes of this vast extended Level: and to render the whole Labourable.
