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travois |
1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. 2. A logging sled. [Northern U. S. & Canada]
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