伝でん助すけ

noun

roulette-like street gambling

Abbreviation of 伝助賭博. A historical street gambling game resembling roulette, now rare.

See also: 伝助賭博

• 戦せん後ごの闇やみ市いちでは伝でん助すけ賭と博ばくが流行はやったらしい。

  It seems that 伝助 gambling was popular in the postwar black markets.

noun

portable tape-recorder (used by reporters)

Colloquial term for a portable tape recorder, especially the kind used by newspaper reporters. Now largely historical.

• 昔むかしの新しん聞ぶん記き者しゃは伝でん助すけを肩かたにかけて取しゅ材ざいに行いった。

  Old-time newspaper reporters went to cover stories with a 伝助 slung over their shoulder.