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Meanings of tameable in English

Capable of being tamed.

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        1
        The safety of my coffee cup illustrates how the randomness of the Gaussian is tamable by averaging.
        The black swan: the impact of the highly improbable
        2
        Quite easily tamable, though naturally shy.
        Love's Meinie: Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds
        3
        A hawk or an eagle is never tamed, but a crow is more easily and completely tamable than the gentlest singing-bird.
        The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 02, December, 1857 / A Maga...
        4
        I like to tame circumstances to my own ends (hear, hear), but if they aren't tamable I let them alone.
        Tell England / A Study in a Generation
        5
        "Remember that, unlike the zebra, they are tamable in captivity, you'll be soaring with me yet."
        In Apple-Blossom Time: A Fairy-Tale to Date
        Usage of tameable in English
        1
        The tiger is tameable, the panther not so.
        Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
        2
        Indeed, so attached had all the more tameable animals become to our uncle, that they would follow at his call, wherever he went.
        In the Eastern Seas
        3
        Are there any animals, wild or domestic, tameable or untameable, in America, which are of a species known to exist at this day in Tartary?
        Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 1
        Tameable through the time