Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Travois

Travois , noun

[Compare 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
2.
A logging sled. [Northern United States & Canada]