２年近く前に "truck" に "garden produce raised for the market" の意味がある事を知りましたが、THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINNに出てきた "truck" はまた別の意味があるようです。その "truck" が使われている一文を下に引用します。
We got an old tin lantern, and a butcher-knife without any handle, and a bran-new Barlow knife worth two bits in any store, and a lot of tallow candles, and a tin candlestick, and a gourd, and a tin cup, and a ratty old bedquilt off the bed, and a reticule with needles and pins and beeswax and buttons and thread and all such truck in it, and a hatchet and some nails, and a fishline as thick as my little finger with some monstrous hooks on it, and a roll of buckskin, and a leather dog-collar, and a horseshoe, and some vials of medicine that didn't have no label on them; and just as we was leaving I found a tolerable good curry-comb, and Jim he found a ratty old fiddle-bow, and a wooden leg.
上の文の "truck" は "needles and pins and beeswax and buttons and thread" の様な物を示しているので、裁縫用品の事かと思いますが辞書で確認します。
・Dictionary.com: miscellaneous articles of little worth; odds and ends.
・Dictionary of Americanisms:
TRUCK. Medicine.--Sherwood's Georgia.
TRUCK. Produce; cloth, or almost anything.--Ibid.
They purchased homespun, calico, salt, rum, tobacco, and such other truck as their necessaries called for.--Chronicles of Pineville
"What do the doctors give for the fever and ague?"
"Oh, they give abundance o' truck."--Georgia Scenes
"almost anything" とはまいりましたね。 日本語の小間物、ガラクタが意味として近いのでしょうか。
We got an old tin lantern, and a butcher-knife without any handle, and a bran-new Barlow knife worth two bits in any store, and a lot of tallow candles, and a tin candlestick, and a gourd, and a tin cup, and a ratty old bedquilt off the bed, and a reticule with needles and pins and beeswax and buttons and thread and all such truck in it, and a hatchet and some nails, and a fishline as thick as my little finger with some monstrous hooks on it, and a roll of buckskin, and a leather dog-collar, and a horseshoe, and some vials of medicine that didn't have no label on them; and just as we was leaving I found a tolerable good curry-comb, and Jim he found a ratty old fiddle-bow, and a wooden leg.
上の文の "truck" は "needles and pins and beeswax and buttons and thread" の様な物を示しているので、裁縫用品の事かと思いますが辞書で確認します。
・Dictionary.com: miscellaneous articles of little worth; odds and ends.
・Dictionary of Americanisms:
TRUCK. Medicine.--Sherwood's Georgia.
TRUCK. Produce; cloth, or almost anything.--Ibid.
They purchased homespun, calico, salt, rum, tobacco, and such other truck as their necessaries called for.--Chronicles of Pineville
"What do the doctors give for the fever and ague?"
"Oh, they give abundance o' truck."--Georgia Scenes
"almost anything" とはまいりましたね。 日本語の小間物、ガラクタが意味として近いのでしょうか。
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