travois

Noun

tra=vois

CIDE DICTIONARY

travois, n. [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.]

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