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kettinghor.

A type of sieve involving a chain.

10 characters3 syllables approx.Nederlands language

Meaning & usage

noun
  1. A type of sieve involving a chain.

    masculine
  2. A ballast cleaner or undercutter; a type of large machine involving steel chains, used to sieve track ballast.

    masculine
Where this word comes from

From ketting (“chain”) + horde (“large sieve; wooden lattice; wattle screen; hurdle”). The word hor also exists, but with a specific meaning of "insect screen". Due to this semantic problem and the fact that the forms kettinghort and kettinghorde are (marginally) attested in the early 20th century as names for a type of sieving implement, hor is probably not the basis for this compound, although it (and/or the verb horren (“to sieve”), as in hormachine) may have influenced the loss of the final -t/-de.

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