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Travois   Listen
noun
Travois  n.  
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."
2.
A logging sled. (Northern U. S. & Canada)






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"Travois" Quotes from Famous Books



... this meat home, then you can have something to eat." And the old man did as he had been ordered, thinking to himself: "Now, at last, my son-in-law has taken pity on me. He will give me part of this meat." When he returned with the dogs, they skinned the cow, cut up the meat and packed it on the dog travois, and went home. Then the young man had his wives unload it, and told his father-in-law to go home. He did not give him even a piece of liver. Neither would the older daughter give her parents anything to eat, but the younger took pity on the old people and stole a piece of meat, ...
— Blackfoot Lodge Tales • George Bird Grinnell



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