Definition of travois in English:
travois
noun trəˈvɔɪtrəˈvoi
A type of sledge formerly used by North American Indians to carry goods, consisting of two joined poles pulled by a horse or dog.
（旧时被北美印第安人用来运货的）马拉双杆雪橇- Behind the huge caravan of people, travois, and pony herds, some 120 freight wagons carried supplies and indigent Indians.
- As the Northern village followed down the White River in the wake of the Red Cloud column, this group traveled at the very rear of the procession, a buckskin horse hauling on a travois the bundle that contained the body of Crazy Horse.
- The Indians also have the skill to pack up their tepees and travois and set them up elsewhere.
- A story of Ka-mina-kus, a legendary warrior, seems to be taken directly from Grinnell's account (Grinnell 107-08; Paget 151-52), as does a description of the travois, a type of dog-pulled or horse-drawn vehicle.
- With their wounded strapped to travois, the Nez Perces made their way through the Big Hole and Horse Prairie valleys.
- They all then prepare to return to Drexal making travois for the injured.
- Described as ‘roads’ by fur traders, these trails were further rutted by the dragging of lodge poles and numerous travois behind laboring horses.
- However, to date, the provincial government is dragging its travois, so to speak.
- The families walked the 140-mile trip and children and elders rode on lodge-pole travois dragged by ponies and loaded with tents, kettles and food.
- When he wanted to travel, he called for his braves, and they would carry him upon a travois, an A-shaped frame made of long poles and a deerskin platform.
- Being ‘light and young and active,’ he climbed up a travois leaning against the stockade and sprang over and into the willows.
- Domesticated dogs carried Blackfoot belongings by pulling a loaded travois consisting of two long poles attached to the dog's sides.
- Women rolled lodge skins, secured packs, and hitched travois.
- For example, using descriptions gleaned from his extensive research, Henderson attempts to replicate an Hidatsa dog travois (a wood and sinew A-frame sled) and then train a short-haired Husky to pull the outfit.
- You should have it with you all the time, and you never know when you may need to cut a wading staff, build an emergency shelter or even make a travois to get an injured buddy back to camp.
- Prior to the introduction of horses to North America, tipis were small, 8 to 14 feet in diameter, since the poles and buffalo skin coverings were pulled on travois from one encampment to another by dogs or women.
- Traveling over great distances, caravans of men, women, and children, amid crowds of dogs, herds of horses, and the clatter of travois, crossed the high, windswept passes punctuating the Continental Divide.
Origin
Mid 19th century: alteration of synonymous travail, from French.
Definition of travois in US English:
travois
nountrəˈvoi
A type of sledge formerly used by North American Indians to carry goods, consisting of two joined poles pulled by a horse or dog.
（旧时被北美印第安人用来运货的）马拉双杆雪橇- Prior to the introduction of horses to North America, tipis were small, 8 to 14 feet in diameter, since the poles and buffalo skin coverings were pulled on travois from one encampment to another by dogs or women.
- The Indians also have the skill to pack up their tepees and travois and set them up elsewhere.
- However, to date, the provincial government is dragging its travois, so to speak.
- A story of Ka-mina-kus, a legendary warrior, seems to be taken directly from Grinnell's account (Grinnell 107-08; Paget 151-52), as does a description of the travois, a type of dog-pulled or horse-drawn vehicle.
- With their wounded strapped to travois, the Nez Perces made their way through the Big Hole and Horse Prairie valleys.
- When he wanted to travel, he called for his braves, and they would carry him upon a travois, an A-shaped frame made of long poles and a deerskin platform.
- Women rolled lodge skins, secured packs, and hitched travois.
- Described as ‘roads’ by fur traders, these trails were further rutted by the dragging of lodge poles and numerous travois behind laboring horses.
- For example, using descriptions gleaned from his extensive research, Henderson attempts to replicate an Hidatsa dog travois (a wood and sinew A-frame sled) and then train a short-haired Husky to pull the outfit.
- Traveling over great distances, caravans of men, women, and children, amid crowds of dogs, herds of horses, and the clatter of travois, crossed the high, windswept passes punctuating the Continental Divide.
- You should have it with you all the time, and you never know when you may need to cut a wading staff, build an emergency shelter or even make a travois to get an injured buddy back to camp.
- The families walked the 140-mile trip and children and elders rode on lodge-pole travois dragged by ponies and loaded with tents, kettles and food.
- Behind the huge caravan of people, travois, and pony herds, some 120 freight wagons carried supplies and indigent Indians.
- They all then prepare to return to Drexal making travois for the injured.
- As the Northern village followed down the White River in the wake of the Red Cloud column, this group traveled at the very rear of the procession, a buckskin horse hauling on a travois the bundle that contained the body of Crazy Horse.
- Being ‘light and young and active,’ he climbed up a travois leaning against the stockade and sprang over and into the willows.
- Domesticated dogs carried Blackfoot belongings by pulling a loaded travois consisting of two long poles attached to the dog's sides.
Origin
Mid 19th century: alteration of synonymous travail, from French.