a. rare. [f. L. locāre to place: see -BLE.] Of persons: That can be placed (in a situation or office). As sb., one who is fit to be so placed; hence attrib., as locable list.
a. 1816. Bentham, Offic. Apt. Maximized, Introd. View (1830), 5. Persons locable in the several situations, say in one word, locables. Ibid. (1816–30), Extract Const. Code, 27. Applicants … demanding admission into the locable list, and to that end presenting themselves for examination.
