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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