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noun

Travois n.

A primitive vehicle, common among the North American Indians, usually two trailing poles serving as shafts and bearing a platform or net for a load. "On the plains they will have horses dragging travoises; dogs with travoises, women and children loaded with impediments."

A logging sled. (Northern U. S. & Canada)

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Travois" Quotes from Famous Books

... there were by scores right here at the old antelope crossing only the night before. The sands of the ford were still trampled by myriad hoofs of ponies and streaked by the dragging poles of the travois. The torn earth on the northward rise out of the stream was still wet and muddy from the drip of shaggy breast and barrel of their nimble mounts. No need to call up Iron Shield or Baptiste or young Touch-the-Skies, Sioux scouts from the agency, to interpret the signs and point ...

— To The Front - A Sequel to Cadet Days • Charles King

... except that which gathered in holes. For the dragoon mules no water at all, and no forage except the stiff brush. The fattest mule was killed, as food, but he proved very tough. The wounded could not be moved save in rude travois or litters of blankets slung between poles, the ends of which dragged along the ground. The hill was open, and exposed to weather and the enemy's view. Although San Diego and Commodore Stockton were only thirty miles distant (yet far out of sight beyond the high, brushy hills), the camp ...

— Boys' Book of Frontier Fighters • Edwin L. Sabin