a. [UN-1 7 b.] Incapable of being played.

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1833.  Lytton, Godolphin, xxxv. Having an unplayable hand and a bad partner.

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1839.  Darley, Introd. Beaum. & Fl.’s Wks., p. xxvii. These … form the real attraction of their ‘plays,’ altogether unplayable now.

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1881.  Sat. Rev., 2 July, 14/1. The two slow bowlers seemed quite unplayable.

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1884.  Lillywhite’s Cricket Comp., 39. The wicket was unplayable.

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1890.  Hutchinson, Golf (Badm. Libr.), xii. 440, Rules. XIII. Unplayable Balls.

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1902.  Cornish, Naturalist Thames, 33. After that, I must trust to the strength of the gut, for the fish would be unplayable.

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