Definition of "battable"

battable

adjective
comparative more battable, superlative most battable
1. (obsolete) Capable of cultivation; fertile; productive.
  Quotations
  Massinissa made many inward parts of Barbarie and Numidia in Africk (before his time incult and horrid) fruitful and battable by this means.
  1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy