travoises

Seriously wounded were piled onto travoises and pulled far enough away so their cries would not cause confusion.

A Fire Upon the Deep Vinge, Vernor 1992

They were strapped into travoises, and hauled out of sight over the hill's edge.

A Fire Upon the Deep Vinge, Vernor 1992

The charred bodies of two alien members were carefully placed on travoises -- more carefully than the wounded troopers had been -- and hauled off.

A Fire Upon the Deep Vinge, Vernor 1992

They stepped out into the rain and saw the women of the village taking down the tepees and rolling the deer skins and buffalo robes into tight bundles that they tied onto the tops of travoises with strips of hide.

TWO FOR TEXAS James Lee Burke 1989

They stepped out into the rain and saw the women of the village taking down the tepees and rolling the deer skins and buffalo robes into tight bundles that they tied onto the tops of travoises with strips of hide.

TWO FOR TEXAS James Lee Burke 1989

They rode at a walk across the clearing into the trees, while the Indian women finished loading everything that was of any worth to them on the travoises—jerked venison, scalded and salted piglets and dogs, clay bowls filled with flint arrow points, turkey feathers stiff with animal grease for arrow shafts.

TWO FOR TEXAS James Lee Burke 1989

They rode at a walk across the clearing into the trees, while the Indian women finished loading everything that was of any worth to them on the travoises—jerked venison, scalded and salted piglets and dogs, clay bowls filled with flint arrow points, turkey feathers stiff with animal grease for arrow shafts.

TWO FOR TEXAS James Lee Burke 1989

They rode at a walk across the clearing into the trees, while the Indian women finished loading everything that was of any worth to them on the travoises—jerked venison, scalded and salted piglets and dogs, clay bowls filled with flint arrow points, turkey feathers stiff with animal grease for arrow shafts.

TWO FOR TEXAS James Lee Burke 1989

They stepped out into the rain and saw the women of the village taking down the tepees and rolling the deer skins and buffalo robes into tight bundles that they tied onto the tops of travoises with strips of hide.

TWO FOR TEXAS James Lee Burke 1989

He found a number of pole travoises, from which the animals had been unhitched in the first panic when the landing craft had been coming down.

Naudsonce H. Beam Piper 1934