assaultable, a.
(əˈsɔːltəb(ə)l)
Also 6 assaut-; and see aphet. saultable.
[f. prec. vb. + -able. Cf. It. assaltevole.]
Capable of being assaulted, open to assault.
| 1548 Hall Chron. (1809) 737 They bet the walles so, with great ordinaunce, that they made the town assautable. 1649 Cromwell Lett. 17 Sept. (Carl.) To make breaches assaultable, and by the help of God to storm them. 1829 S. Turner Hist. Eng. III. ii. xix. 589 The place was found not to be assaultable. |