taskable

名词 n. 形容词 adj.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. On a plantation exploiting an enslaved labour force, a person considered to be capable of performing labour, especially field labour. US,historical,obsolete
    — Those [slaves] actually in the field were 44 taskables, while the remaining 13½ were employed as cart drivers, nurses, cooks for the negroes, carpenters, gardeners, house servants and stock minders […].
形容词 adj.
  1. To which tasks can be assigned. not-comparable
    — a taskable intelligent agent; a taskable sensor
  2. (of an enslaved person held on a plantation) Considered to be capable of performing labour, especially field labour. US,historical,not-comparable,obsolete
    — 1789, record of sale of enslaved people by Thomas Washington, cited in Philip D. Morgan, Slave Counterpoint, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998, Part 1, Chapter 3, p. 198, footnote 85, [The 16-year-old boy has] been taskable these 3 years past.

词形变化

taskables plural

词汇关系

相关词
able-bodied

词源

词源 1
From task + -able.
词源 2
From task + -able.
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