kettinghor

Dutch

Alternative forms

• (all obsolete) kettinghort, kettinghorde

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

Further reading

• kettinghor on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl