hiker 的詞源

1908年，動詞 hike 的代詞名詞。早期指一種船：

The "hiker" or "tuck-up" as it is more generally termed, is a craft peculiar to the Delaware River, and is to the youth residing along the banks of that stream what the racing shell is to the Torontonian .... The origin of the name "hiker" is veiled in mystery. No member of the clubs engaged in sailing these boats can give anything like a satisfactory derivation of the word. The most common explanation is that it is corrupted from the local verb "to hike," which means to run or fly swiftly. ["Harper's Young People," 1885]

“Hiker”或“Tuck-up”是特有於特拉華河的一種船，對於居住在河岸邊的青年來說，它就像是多倫多人的賽艇一樣……“Hiker”這個名字的起源充滿了神祕色彩。這些駕駛這些船隻的俱樂部成員中沒有人能夠給出一個令人滿意的詞源。最常見的解釋是它是從當地的動詞“to hike”（意爲快速奔跑或飛奔）中演變而來的。[“哈珀少年人”，1885年]