'Travois' definitions:
Definition of 'Travois'
From: GCIDE
- Travois \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. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- 2. A logging sled. [Northern U. S. & Canada] [Webster 1913 Suppl.]