We have no meanings for "scarcely eatable" in our records yet.
1 The flesh, however, though roasted and dried, was scarcely eatable .
2 By this time our stock was completely exhausted-indeed ,forthe last day it had been scarcely eatable .
3 The few remaining, intended for food, were in so emaciated a state that the flesh was scarcely eatable .
4 When my pie nearly gone and what remain was scarcely eatable , I see a vessel standing to de westward.
5 We made up our stock to twenty-six but several of them were putrid and scarcely eatable , even by men suffering the extremity of famine.
6 The store of salt fish we had remaining was scarcely eatable , for the salt had been washed out of it, and it was becoming bad.
7 A few biscuits and a portion of the salt beef, which was at the best scarcely eatable , and possessed but slightly nutritive qualities, alone remained.
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