Dictionary entry

Travois

Webster's Dictionary 1913

‖Tra′vois″ (?), n. [Cf. Travail.] 1. 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. Julian Ralph.

2. A logging sled.