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pable of being navigated; deep enough and wide enough to afford passage to vessels; as, a navigable river.

Capable of being sailed round. Ray.

Incapable of being navigated; impassable by ships or vessels. Drygen. -- In*nav"i*ga*bly, adv.

Navigable for boats, or small river craft. The boatable waters of the Alleghany. J. Morse.

A tract of land, over which boats or goods are carried between two bodies of navigable water; a carrying place; a portage. Etym: [U.S.]

it or hinder communication at pleasure, as before the gate of a town or castle, or over a navigable river or canal.

The navigable part of a river, bay, etc., through which vessels enter or depart; the part of a harbor or channel ehich is kept open and unobstructed for the passage of vessels. Totten. the rough.

a man can extend his arms; -- used chiefly in measuring cables, cordage, and the depth of navigable water by soundings.

A reservoir and sluiceway beside a navigable stream, just above a shoal, so that the stream may pour in water as boats pass, and thus bear them over the shoal. Flash wheel (Mech.), a paddle wheel made to revolve in a breast or curved water way, by which water is lifted from the lower to the higher level.…

The quality or condition of being navigable; navigableness.

of navigating; the act of passing on water in ships or other vessels; the state of being navigable.

A carry between navigable waters. See 3d Carry.

mole, bank, or wharf, formed toward the sea, or at the side of a harbor, river, or other navigable water, for convenience in loading and unloading vessels. [Written also key.]

Capable of being sailed over; navigable; as, a sailable river.

A sluice or lock, as in a river, to make it more navigable. [Obs.] Pepys.

A tree, or a branch of a tree, fixed in the bottom of a river or other navigable water, and rising nearly or quite to the surface, by which boats are sometimes pierced and sunk.

The shore, especially the beach of a sea, ocean, or large lake; rarely, the margin of a navigable river. Chaucer. Strand birds. (Zoöl.) See Shore birds, under Shore. -- Strand plover (Zoöl.), a black-bellied plover. See Illust. of Plover. -- Strand wolf (Zoöl.), the brown hyena.

That may be sailed over, as water or air; navigable.