Interesting definition of "portable"

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From: Jon Jacky
Date: Fri, 06 Mar 1987 16:43

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A colleague encountered this definition in Webster's New World Dictionary, 
Second College Edition:

	portable ... [obsolete]  bearable, endurable


-Jonathan Jacky
University of Washington

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