[Ads-l] Kettling

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Mon Jun 8 14:11:27 UTC 2020


> On Jun 8, 2020, at 5:15 AM, W Brewer <brewerwa at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> Tempest in a teapot. More grist for the mill.
> das Kesseltreiben "kettle-driving": "Kessel 'kettle' in venery usage is a
> completely enclosed space wherein game is driven.

Oh, *that* kind of venery.  Nevermind (to quote Emily Litella).  


> In addition, Kesseljagen
> 'kettle-hunting' since 1682 ...; Kesseltreiben first occurs in an 1870
> letter ..."
> Kluge, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache, 20th ed. 1967,
> p.365b:
> Kesseltreiben n. Kessel in weidmänn[ischen] Sinn ist der rings geschlossene
> Platz, wohin das Wild getrieben wird. Dazu Kesseljagen seit Täntzer 1682
> Jagdgeheimn., Vorw.; Kesseltreiben zuerst in einem Brief vom 6. August 1870
> bei Roon, Denkwürdigk. 2, 441.
> *****
> Wp has: The Falaise Pocket (German: Kessel von Falaise; 12–21 August 1944).
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