travois
a transport device, formerly used by the Plains Indians, consisting of two poles joined by a frame and drawn by an animal.
Origin of travois
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How to use travois in a sentence
Now our worldly goods were increasing, so I cut down two lodge poles and made a little travois for the dog.
The Way of a Man | Emerson Houghtravois were loaded with household goods, or carried women too old and children too young to walk or ride horseback.
South from Hudson Bay | E. C. [Ethel Claire] BrillThese Indians have a large number of ugly dogs, and sometimes they hitch them to their travois.
Harper's Young People, April 20, 1880 | VariousShe snatched him off the travois, but he struggled out of her arms to look upon his dog lovingly and admiringly.
Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains | [AKA Ohiyesa], Charles A. EastmanThe youthful Gall was in a travois, a basket mounted on trailing poles and harnessed to the sides of the animal.
Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains | [AKA Ohiyesa], Charles A. Eastman
British Dictionary definitions for travois
/ (trəˈvɔɪ) /
a sled formerly used by the Plains Indians of North America, consisting of two poles joined by a frame and dragged by an animal
Canadian a similar sled used for dragging logs
Origin of travois
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