Betchete

The betchete (Walloon term of origin ) was not a boat of river long and flat-bottomed, of variable size, used for the transport of the goods and the people in the Massif inhabitant of the Ardennes. One met them in particular in the basin of the Ourthe (Ourthe, Vesdre, Amblève, Salm, Canal of Ourthe), where they were one of the means of transport used for the routing of the raw materials (ores, wood) and the forwarding of the end products of industry inhabitant of Li2ege.

Their form was particularly adapted to these rivers to the sometimes abundant flow, but whose bed was strewn with rocks and with by place low depths. The high shape of their stem allowed also the crossing of the Barrage S. It generally went up the rivers by Halage.

Under consideration like means of transport privileged for the implementation of the Channel of Ourthe, their decline will be done in parallel with the construction of the railway lines in the middle of the of the Ardennes solid mass in the middle of the 19th century. The Tunnel of Bernistap to Buret, passing under the border belgo - Luxembourg eoise, was built on their scale.

Reading: “The Bètchète Last” of Paul De Ré, historical novel in four volumes - Key co-edition literary editions and Céfal, 2006.

As a Walloon

As a Walloon, the term means above all “ point ”, “ end ” for any object (for example: shoes). The term passed in French of Belgium, in particular with Liege, as well for its meaning general practitioner as for his meaning battelière (to pronounce “ bétchette ”, n.f).

betchete of Oûte : pitit laying batea ki poirteut martchandijhes so Aiwe-of-Oûte. (definition motî Walloon ).

The term is also used to indicate a “ Gondole ” as a Walloon.

In Linguistic, it is used as translation of Préfixe (see for example ).

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