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‖ travois, -voise, n. N. Amer.|træˈvɔɪ, -ˈvɔɪz|
Also † travoi, try-voy, etc. (which represent an older form).
[c gray][Corruptions of travail n.3, pronounced in Canada travày (traˈvɑɪ[/c]), and by Métis of the Red River, Assiniboine, etc., travòy |traˈvɔɪ|, pl. travòys. This has been perverted by writers into an assumed F. travois, pl. travois, and this again englished as travois, -voise, pl. -voises. A form nearer to the original is preserved in the lumbermen's travoy; see travoy n.
For the facts of the history we are indebted to Judge Prudhomme of St. Boniface, Winnipeg, through the good offices of Prof. Moyse of Montreal, and Prof. Rivard of Quebec.]
The North American Indian means of transport, = travail n.3. Also attrib.
1847K. Carson in W. F. Cody Wild West (1888) 349 The Tlamaths..prevented his body from falling into our hands by drawing it away on a travoi. 1879J. G. Bourke Diary VIII. 847 (MS.), [He] says he will stick with the column if he has to be hauled on a travois. 1885Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 31 Jan. 6/8 The pony..dragging that primitive Indian carriage, the travoise. 1892J. Ralph in Harper's Mag. Mar. 508/2 On the plains they will have horses dragging travoises, dogs with travoises. 1896G. B. Grinnell Story of Indian ix. 156 Three vehicles were known to the primitive Indian—the travois in the south and the sledge in the north for land travel, and the canoe wherever there were water ways. 1899Daily News 12 Jan. 6/1 Groups of silent men with bows and quivers at their backs, of women riding or leading patient pack ponies that dragged their travois. 1926C. S. Walgamott Reminisc. Early Days 26/2 George..found..five head of horses with two riders the other three horses dragging either lodge poles or try-voy, possibly both. 1959E. Tunis Indians 86/1 Those Indians trained their dogs to help with the transport job by carrying packs or by dragging tent poles and small travois on which burdens could be lashed. 1974J. A. Michener Centennial iv. 149 The travois, that primitive but functional invention for hauling goods, was constructed always from two poles used otherwise to support the tipi.
attrib.1894Outing (U.S.) XXIV. 448/2 An old travois pole which some squaw had discarded. |