The Collaborative International Dictionary
Batable \Bat"a*ble\, a. [Abbrev. from debatable.] Disputable. [Obs.]
Note: The border land between England and Scotland, being formerly a subject of contention, was called batable or debatable ground.
Wiktionary
a. (context obsolete English) disputable
Usage examples of "batable".
Come down and speak with me in the batable land before the burg, and I swear to you peace and grith while we parley, and thereto pledge I mine honour as a man of war.
The other are seldom or never overflown, and that is the cause wherefore their grass is shorter than that of the bottoms, and yet is it far more fine, wholesome, and batable, sith the hay of our low meadows is not only full of sandy cinder, which breedeth sundry diseases in our cattle, but also more rowty, foggy, and full of flags, and therefore not so profitable for store and forrage as the higher meads be.