warrantable
adjEtymology From warrant + -able.
1
Justifiable, just, proper.
2
Authorized by warrant or right.
3
Of animals: having reached a sufficient age to be hunted.
- a warrantable deer
- They are the droppings of the beast pursued. The harbourer keeps them in his horn, to show to his master, and can tell by them whether it is a warrantable beast or otherwise, and what state it is in.1958, T[erence] H[anbury] White, chapter II, in The Once and Future King, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, book I (The Sword in the Stone):
- Derived terms
- warrantably