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🇩🇪German Source WordCode: DE

Kummetscheibe

Pronunciation / Transliteration: ˈkʊmɛtˌʃaɪbə

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Hame/heɪm/
nounCEFR C2 (Proficient)Top #34500 frequency
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🇩🇪 Example Sentence in German:

"Die Kummetscheibe verteilt den Zugdruck gleichmäßig auf die Brust des Pferdes."

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1 sense
As noun
  1. 1

    One of two curved pieces of wood or metal attached to the collar of a draft horse to hold the traces.

    "The farmer adjusted the leather straps tightly around the wooden hame before hitching the horse to the plow."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from Middle English hamo, from Old English hama, meaning a covering, skin, or harness part, tracing back to Proto-Germanic *hamon-. Historically, it refers to one of the two curved pieces of wood or metal attached to the collar of a draft horse to which the traces are fastened.

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