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Travois
(gcide) | Travois \Tra`vois"\, n. [Cf. Travail.]
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.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
2. A logging sled. [Northern U. S. & Canada]
[Webster 1913 Suppl.] |
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travois road
(gcide) | Skid road \Skid road\ (Logging)
(a) A road along which logs are dragged to the skidway or
landing; -- called also travois road or travoy road.
(b) A road having partly sunken transverse logs (called
skids) at intervals of about five feet.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.] |
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