a. [f. SPARE v.1] That can be spared, in various senses of the verb.
1688–9. in Cobbett, Parl. Hist. Eng. (1809), V. 173. You cannot doubt but the spareable part will be treasured up for the good of the subject.
1821. Blackw. Mag., X. 89. We intend shipping a cargo of our worst and most spareable puns on board the next whaler.
1887. Blackmore, Springhaven (ed. 4), III. xix. 270. His great desire … was never to destroy his enemies, by the number of one man spareable.
