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Definition of Travois
1. n. 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.
Definition of Travois
1. Noun. A traditional North American Indian sled-like vehicle, pulled by person, dog, or horse. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Travois
1. a type of sled [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Travois
Literary usage of Travois
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Immediate care of the injured by Albert Sidney Morrow (1912)
"The poles at the front end of the travois should be about two and a half feet
apart and at the rear end about three feet apart, kept in this relative ..."
2. The Story of the Indian by George Bird Grinnell (2001)
"dian—the travois in the south and the sledge in the north for land travel, and
the canoe ... In primitive times both sledge and travois were drawn by dogs, ..."
3. Glacier National Park: Its Trails and Treasures by Mathilde Edith Holtz, Katharine Isabel Bemis (1917)
"Occasionally as you are speeding along the driver of the benzine-wagon may point
to some tracks faded and worn and carelessly remark, "The old travois trail ..."
4. Army Regulations by Confederate States of America War Dept, United States War Dept (1908)
"travois, mule litters, etc., may be issued upon the recommendation of the- chief
surgeon. 1451. Commanding officers will inspect ambulances, litters, ..."
5. A Report to the Surgeon General on the Transport of Sick and Wounded by Pack by George Alexander Otis (1877)
"In fact, the horse-litter is carried by the animal*, while tlie travois is ...
The travois may have been employed years ago by our medical officers on the ..."
6. A Complete handbook for the Hospital Corps of the U.S. Army and Navy and by Charles Field Mason (1912)
"To assemble the travois.—Pass each shaft through the collar on the ... Then pass
the front crossbar over the ironed ends on the front of the travois poles, ..."
7. North American Indians of the Plains by Clark Wissler (1912)
"Most tribes used a peculiar A- shaped contrivance, known as a dog travois, upon
which packs were placed. All the northern tribes, save the Crow, ..."
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