kettinghor

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Etymology

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.

Noun

kettinghor m (plural kettinghorren, diminutive kettinghortje n)

  1. A type of sieve involving a chain.
  2. (particularly) A ballast cleaner or undercutter; a type of large machine involving steel chains, used to sieve track ballast.
    Hypernym: hormachine

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