Definition of Travises

1. travis [n] - See also: travis

Lexicographical Neighbors of Travises

traverser
traversers
traverses
traversing
traverso
traversos
travertine
travertines
travertinous
traves
travestied
travesties
travesty
travestying
travis
travises (current term)
travois
travoise
travoises
trawl
trawl line
trawl net
trawlboat
trawlboats
trawled
trawler
trawlerman
trawlermen
trawlers
trawley

Literary usage of Travises

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Stable Book: Being a Treatise on the Management of Horses, in Relation by John Stewart, Anthony Benezet Allen (1864)
"In Favor of Bales, it is urged that they are less costly than travises, and that, in a large stable, one or two more standings may be obtained. ..."

2. Local Notes and Gleanings: Oldham and Neighborhood in Bygone Times (1887)
"He was progenitor of the travises of Shaw, Royton, &c. One of his sons, the Rev. Benjamin Travis, was nominated incumbent of Royton in. ..."

3. Fraser's Magazine by Thomas Carlyle (1852)
"... and by rights his should have been the fashionable, and the travises (who were altogether nom homines) the unfashionable branch of the family. ..."

4. Lancashire: its puritanism and nonconformity by Robert Halley (1872)
"of the chapel, the benches immediately behind his were occupied by a Mr. Booth and Mr. George Travis, assessed at six shillings each. travises ..."

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