navigable
Speech parts
1. navigable - Adjective
2. navigable - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Capable of being navigated; deep enough and wide enough to afford passage to vessels; as, a navigable river.
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navigable waters
a navigable channel
About convert of the Mississippi River System are presently navigable, although not all is used for commerce.
According to extant documents the Melek-Chesme river (small and shallow nowadays) was navigable in Bosporan times, and sea galleys were able to enter the river.
Although some of its former fishing fleet remains, it is mainly a yachting haven on a dramatic coastline with few easily navigable harbours.
An convert section of railway track to the east of the bridge could be moved sideways, so that the main convert girders could be retracted, creating a navigable channel which was convert wide.