Travois

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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.]