travois

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  1. noun A frame slung between trailing poles and pulled by a dog or horse, formerly used by Plains Indians as a conveyance for goods and belongings.

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  • (The treeless landscape had reduced us to burning turds) I lay alone on my travois, exhausted by the day's heat and the night's ride, slipping in and out of sleep. —  F ;SF; - vol 089 issue 06 - December 1995
  • He fashioned a travois, two long poles with a blanket between them, which dragged behind his horse, and brought her back to our camp. —  Dummy1.htm
  • The transport was like a travois, two parallel poles with a canvas sling in between. —  Analog Science Fiction and Fact, January 2002
  • With hands and a demon's bright steel knife, he built a small travois, and then he filled his water sack in the river and put it on the travois and dragged both back to the edge of the woods. —  FSF,August2004
  • Raven stopped dragging the travois, and again the boy heaved. —  FSF,August2004
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  1. Canadian French, alteration of obsolete travoy, from travail, cart-shaft, from French, frame for restraining horses, alteration of Late Latin tripālium, device with three stakes, probably from Latin tripālis, having three stakes; see travail.
 

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