a. [f. TRANSPORT v. + -ABLE. Cf. F. transportable (1812 in Hatz.-Darm.); mod.L. transportābilis.]
1. Capable of being transported.
1582. Reg. Privy Council Scot., III. 530. In uptaking of the custum of all gudis transportabill furth of this realme.
1642. Declar. Lords & Comm. to Gen. Assemb. Ch. Scot., 13. [Soldiers] to be sent presently over to reside amongst them, or declared transportable.
1676. Phil. Trans., XI. 680. A Chest of Copper,… transportable by means of woodden barrs like a Sedan or Chair.
1726. [see TRANSPORT v. 2 a].
1881. J. Russell, Haigs, v. 105. Bringing off whatever was transportable on its own four feet.
1904. R. Small, Hist. U. P. Congregat., II. 1. The Presbytery declared him transportable.
2. Involving or liable to transportation.
1769. Blackstone, Comm., IV. xvii. 242. The statute … makes it a felony transportable for seven years.
1815. Miss Mitford, in L’Estrange, Life (1870), I. 323. It does not … appear that he ever committed any hangable or transportable offence.
1840. Gen. P. Thompson, Exerc. (1842), V. 371. I remember once discovering that I was living in the commission of transportable offences at the rate of two a-day.
Hence Transportableness, the quality of being transportable; liability to transportation.
1727. in Bailey, vol. II.
1844. P. Harwood, Hist. Irish Reb., 107. Transportableness for life.
1898. Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 17 April, 18/6. Many of them [diggers] use only a bowl or pan for washing out the gold. Its lightness and easy transportableness make it peculiarly acceptable to them.
