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Meaning of TRAVOIS

 
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\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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