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Travois

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Noun
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CIDE DICTIONARY

Travoisn. [Cf. Travail.].
  •  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."  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  •  A logging sled.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Travois, n. (pl. same) a N. American Indian vehicle of two joined poles pulled by a horse etc. for carrying a burden.

Etymology
earlier travail f. F, perh. the same word as TRAVAIL
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