"pierceable" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "pierce + -able",
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      "form": "more pierceable",
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  "pos": "adj",
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          "ref": "1949, James Beard, The Fireside Cook Book, New York: Simon and Schuster, page 201",
          "text": "Boil the potatoes in their jackets until tender and pierceable.",
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          "text": "1995, Mark Krikorian, statement given at the Hearing before the Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims of the Committee on the Judiciary House of Representatives, 104th Congress, 1st Session, 17 May, 1995, in Legal Immigration Reform Proposals, Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1996, p. 136,\nWhichever method is chosen for deciding the level of immigration, the question arises whether the cap should be “pierceable” or not. Although “pierceable cap” has an Orwellian ring to it, the issue boils down to whether increases in immediate-family immigration (assuming it remains unlimited) would be subtracted from the numbers allotted to immigrants selected by the point system (a true cap) or whether the numerical limit would apply only to those chosen through a point system."
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        "Capable of being pierced; penetrable."
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  "word": "pierceable"
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  "etymology_text": "pierce + -able",
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          "text": "1995, Mark Krikorian, statement given at the Hearing before the Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims of the Committee on the Judiciary House of Representatives, 104th Congress, 1st Session, 17 May, 1995, in Legal Immigration Reform Proposals, Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1996, p. 136,\nWhichever method is chosen for deciding the level of immigration, the question arises whether the cap should be “pierceable” or not. Although “pierceable cap” has an Orwellian ring to it, the issue boils down to whether increases in immediate-family immigration (assuming it remains unlimited) would be subtracted from the numbers allotted to immigrants selected by the point system (a true cap) or whether the numerical limit would apply only to those chosen through a point system."
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        "Capable of being pierced; penetrable."
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  "word": "pierceable"
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