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Travois
Pronunciation : Tra`vois"
Part of Speech : n.
Definition : 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]
[Cf. Travail.]
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
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