travoisn.

Brit.

/trəˈvɔɪ/,

/ˈtravɔɪ/,

/ˈtravwɑː/, U.S.

/trəˈvɔɪ/,

/ˈtrævɔɪ/,

/ˈtrævwɑ/,

/trævˈwɑ/

Inflections: Plural travois, travoys, travoises.

Forms:

α. 1800s travoie, 1800s– travoi, 1900s trauvoy, 1900s try-voy, 1900s– travoy.

β. 1800s– travois, 1800s– travoise.

Origin: A borrowing from Michif. Etymon: Michif travawy.

Etymology: < Michif travawy (pronounced /traˈvɔɪ/) < Canadian French travail travaille n. The β. forms probably reflect reinterpretation of the second syllable (perhaps initially in plural forms) as showing French -ois (see -ese suffix). Compare earlier travaille n.Michif is a mixed language based on Cree, with significant lexical influence from French.

Originally and chiefly North American. Now chiefly historical.

a. A load-bearing frame pulled like a sled, traditionally used by some North American Indian peoples (esp. Plains Indians) for transporting goods or possessions over land, one end of the frame being harnessed to a horse, dog, etc., and the other resting on the ground behind. Cf. travaille n.A travois typically consists of two long poles, often lashed together in a V-shape, the load being fastened between the poles, sometimes in a basket or net.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles according to means of motion > vehicle moving on runners > [noun] > consisting of two poles with cross-bars

travaille1801

travois1867

1867 Daily Milwaukee (Wisconsin) News 8 Oct. One of the girls, with her infant and her little brother, were brought on a ‘travois’, a not uncomfortable mode of conveyance, made by stretching a buffalo hide between two poles, which are dragged along by a mule, and fastened to the animal's sides like a pair of thills.

a1896 J. G. Bourke Diary (2005) II. 83 [He] says he will stick with the column if he has to be hauled on a travois.

1926 C. 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.

2001 N. Henderson Rediscovering Great Plains ii. 17 The foot ends of the travois dragged behind the dog, sliding over mud, grass, or stones, with the natural spring of the wood cushioning the bumps.

b. In extended use: any similar device used to move a load by dragging; esp. a stretcher or litter for transporting the sick or wounded, typically pulled by a horse or mule.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > transport for the sick or injured > [noun]

travois1879

1879 C. V. Petteys in Sci. Amer. 13 Dec. 378/1 The object..is to provide for army use an improved travois or horse litter, of light draught, and adapted to be folded and packed in a small space.

1916 Mil. Surgeon Mar. 368 Methods of removing wounded without litters; man, horse, and travois, practical demonstrations, improvising a travois if no other is available.

1993 B. Mukherjee Holder of World (1994) 271 The train of elephants dragging travois of cut stone and platform logs, and a hundred of the finest stonemasons of Agra and Aurangabad, who were to lay the foundations of a new city.

2006 Art Jrnl. 65 123/1 The travois delivering the wounded to a makeshift military hospital.

2. An ox-drawn or horse-drawn wooden sled used in the North American logging industry to transport logs over short distances, often on specially constructed roads or tracks, one end of the log resting on the sled and the other trailing on the ground. Now rare. Chiefly in form travoy.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles according to means of motion > vehicle moving on runners > [noun] > for transport of goods

sleadc1374

draya1387

sled1388

slipe1488

slid1513

drag1576

sledge1684

skid1712

paddock1738

sleigh1748

train1783

bobsled1796

bobsleigh1841

bob1856

stone-boat1859

travois1873

slider1888

bobs1910

1873 Wisconsin State Jrnl. 10 Apr. He hauled a mile on travoy with one team 2 logs 16 feet long..scaling 1,723 feet.

1918 H. A. Shearer Farm Mech. vii. 184 Travoys are used to haul logs..to the skidways.

1956 L. G. Sorden & I. J. Ebert Logger's Words of Yesteryears 39 Travois, a drag used to haul logs from woods to skid-way. Generally made from the natural fork of a tree with a cross piece bolted midway in the V. In using, one end of the log rested on travois the other end dragged on snow on the ground.

Compounds

C1. As a modifier, with the sense ‘of or relating to a travois’, as in travois dog, travois pole, etc.

ΚΠ

1891 Indianapolis News 27 Nov. 6/7 He came and hitched the requisite number of horses to her mother's travois poles beside her tent.

1895 Helena (Montana) Independent 3 May 2/2 In his outfit Mr. Beveridge has..a large lot of Indian travoy dogs and two famous bucking bulls who have thrown every one of the hundreds of wild riders who have attempted to ride them.

2017 @abuckaroogirl 4 May in twitter.com (accessed 11 Apr. 2019) Pony Cappy, who became the ‘travois’ pony. He would haul my 14 ft lodge from camp to camp, then could go brand calves next day!

C2. As a modifier, designating a route made by or designed to be travelled using a travois (chiefly in sense 2), as in travois road, travois trail, etc.

ΚΠ

1901 Junior Munsey June 363/2 While the travoy road is in the process of construction.

1953 A. M. Kingsbury Necedah 17 Along the travoy trails a single ox would pull the logs from the cuttings to the banks where they were skidded into huge piles.

1970 Walla Walla (Washington) Union-Bull. 1 Mar. 24/2 This is the old Nez Perce travois trail used by the explorers Lewis and Clark in the spring of 1806.

C3. With other nouns, with the sense ‘that is a travois’, as in travois litter, travois sled, etc.

ΚΠ

1902 S. E. White Blazed Trail vii. 52 A number of pines had been felled out on the ice, cut in logs, and left in expectation of ice thick enough to bear the travoy ‘dray’.

1957 Clearing House 31 509/1 The travois litter transporting the wounded.

2008 A. B. Kehoe Controv. in Archaeol. vii. 148 Whether it was further contact, between Arctic dogsled users and ancestors of northern Plains Indians, that inspired Plains people to breed big dogs to carry packs and drag travois sleds, we do not know.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

travoisv.

Brit.

/trəˈvɔɪ/,

/ˈtravɔɪ/, U.S.

/trəˈvɔɪ/,

/ˈtræˌvɔɪ/,

/trəvˈwɑ/

Forms: see travois n.

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: travois n.

Etymology: < travois n.

Originally and chiefly North American. Now chiefly historical.

1. transitive. To pull (a load) using a travois; spec. to haul (logs) over a short distance using such a means of transport (cf. travois n. 2).

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance by drawing along > draw along or haul [verb (transitive)] > haul timber > by specific method

travois1877

society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > transport of goods in a vehicle > transport goods in vehicle [verb (transitive)]

drawc1300

freight1540

consign1653

run1701

haul1741

ship1857

travois1908

1877 Green Bay (Wisconsin) Advocate 1 Mar. 3/9 John Ainsworth, of Waukechon, had one leg broken twice while travoying logs.

1908 E. B. Bronson Reminisc. of Ranchman ix. 235 The pole was travoised back to camp.

1974 Western Folklore 35 143 The first trees felled in our country were travoised and sledded out of the woods.

2014 B. Holbert Hour of Lead iii. 27 Indians travoising a deer carcass and badger skins or hauling a wounded man to a Nez Perce healer.

2. intransitive. To use a travois to transport a load; to travel with one's possessions transported in this way. Cf. travois n. rare.In quot. 1878: with reference to hauling logs; cf. travois n. 2.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance by drawing along > draw along or haul [verb (intransitive)] > haul timber by specific method

travois1878

society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance by drawing along > draw along or haul [verb (intransitive)]

drawa1398

travois1914

1878 Oshkosh (Wisconsin) Daily Norhwestern 29 Jan. 2/2 The outlook for the jobbers is not at all reassuring. Those who have short enough hauls to travoy are not much more than paying expenses.

1914 E. B. Bronson Vanguard xi. 208 He quickly finished trading with me..and early in the afternoon had struck his tepees and was travoising away into the north!

1951 See Everything in Montana (Montana State Highway Commission) Montana's original inhabitants didn't camp long in one place. They much preferred wrapping up their lodges or teepees and travoising across the country.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	travois
释义	travoisn. Brit. /trəˈvɔɪ/, /ˈtravɔɪ/, /ˈtravwɑː/, U.S. /trəˈvɔɪ/, /ˈtrævɔɪ/, /ˈtrævwɑ/, /trævˈwɑ/ Inflections: Plural travois, travoys, travoises. Forms: α. 1800s travoie, 1800s– travoi, 1900s trauvoy, 1900s try-voy, 1900s– travoy. β. 1800s– travois, 1800s– travoise. Origin: A borrowing from Michif. Etymon: Michif travawy. Etymology: < Michif travawy (pronounced /traˈvɔɪ/) < Canadian French travail travaille n. The β. forms probably reflect reinterpretation of the second syllable (perhaps initially in plural forms) as showing French -ois (see -ese suffix). Compare earlier travaille n.Michif is a mixed language based on Cree, with significant lexical influence from French. Originally and chiefly North American. Now chiefly historical. 1. a. A load-bearing frame pulled like a sled, traditionally used by some North American Indian peoples (esp. Plains Indians) for transporting goods or possessions over land, one end of the frame being harnessed to a horse, dog, etc., and the other resting on the ground behind. Cf. travaille n.A travois typically consists of two long poles, often lashed together in a V-shape, the load being fastened between the poles, sometimes in a basket or net. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles according to means of motion > vehicle moving on runners > [noun] > consisting of two poles with cross-bars travaille1801 travois1867 1867 Daily Milwaukee (Wisconsin) News 8 Oct. One of the girls, with her infant and her little brother, were brought on a ‘travois’, a not uncomfortable mode of conveyance, made by stretching a buffalo hide between two poles, which are dragged along by a mule, and fastened to the animal's sides like a pair of thills. a1896 J. G. Bourke Diary (2005) II. 83 [He] says he will stick with the column if he has to be hauled on a travois. 1926 C. 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. 2001 N. Henderson Rediscovering Great Plains ii. 17 The foot ends of the travois dragged behind the dog, sliding over mud, grass, or stones, with the natural spring of the wood cushioning the bumps. b. In extended use: any similar device used to move a load by dragging; esp. a stretcher or litter for transporting the sick or wounded, typically pulled by a horse or mule. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > transport for the sick or injured > [noun] travois1879 1879 C. V. Petteys in Sci. Amer. 13 Dec. 378/1 The object..is to provide for army use an improved travois or horse litter, of light draught, and adapted to be folded and packed in a small space. 1916 Mil. Surgeon Mar. 368 Methods of removing wounded without litters; man, horse, and travois, practical demonstrations, improvising a travois if no other is available. 1993 B. Mukherjee Holder of World (1994) 271 The train of elephants dragging travois of cut stone and platform logs, and a hundred of the finest stonemasons of Agra and Aurangabad, who were to lay the foundations of a new city. 2006 Art Jrnl. 65 123/1 The travois delivering the wounded to a makeshift military hospital. 2. An ox-drawn or horse-drawn wooden sled used in the North American logging industry to transport logs over short distances, often on specially constructed roads or tracks, one end of the log resting on the sled and the other trailing on the ground. Now rare. Chiefly in form travoy. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles according to means of motion > vehicle moving on runners > [noun] > for transport of goods sleadc1374 draya1387 sled1388 slipe1488 slid1513 drag1576 sledge1684 skid1712 paddock1738 sleigh1748 train1783 bobsled1796 bobsleigh1841 bob1856 stone-boat1859 travois1873 slider1888 bobs1910 1873 Wisconsin State Jrnl. 10 Apr. He hauled a mile on travoy with one team 2 logs 16 feet long..scaling 1,723 feet. 1918 H. A. Shearer Farm Mech. vii. 184 Travoys are used to haul logs..to the skidways. 1956 L. G. Sorden & I. J. Ebert Logger's Words of Yesteryears 39 Travois, a drag used to haul logs from woods to skid-way. Generally made from the natural fork of a tree with a cross piece bolted midway in the V. In using, one end of the log rested on travois the other end dragged on snow on the ground. Compounds C1. As a modifier, with the sense ‘of or relating to a travois’, as in travois dog, travois pole, etc. ΚΠ 1891 Indianapolis News 27 Nov. 6/7 He came and hitched the requisite number of horses to her mother's travois poles beside her tent. 1895 Helena (Montana) Independent 3 May 2/2 In his outfit Mr. Beveridge has..a large lot of Indian travoy dogs and two famous bucking bulls who have thrown every one of the hundreds of wild riders who have attempted to ride them. 2017 @abuckaroogirl 4 May in twitter.com (accessed 11 Apr. 2019) Pony Cappy, who became the ‘travois’ pony. He would haul my 14 ft lodge from camp to camp, then could go brand calves next day! C2. As a modifier, designating a route made by or designed to be travelled using a travois (chiefly in sense 2), as in travois road, travois trail, etc. ΚΠ 1901 Junior Munsey June 363/2 While the travoy road is in the process of construction. 1953 A. M. Kingsbury Necedah 17 Along the travoy trails a single ox would pull the logs from the cuttings to the banks where they were skidded into huge piles. 1970 Walla Walla (Washington) Union-Bull. 1 Mar. 24/2 This is the old Nez Perce travois trail used by the explorers Lewis and Clark in the spring of 1806. C3. With other nouns, with the sense ‘that is a travois’, as in travois litter, travois sled, etc. ΚΠ 1902 S. E. White Blazed Trail vii. 52 A number of pines had been felled out on the ice, cut in logs, and left in expectation of ice thick enough to bear the travoy ‘dray’. 1957 Clearing House 31 509/1 The travois litter transporting the wounded. 2008 A. B. Kehoe Controv. in Archaeol. vii. 148 Whether it was further contact, between Arctic dogsled users and ancestors of northern Plains Indians, that inspired Plains people to breed big dogs to carry packs and drag travois sleds, we do not know. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). travoisv. Brit. /trəˈvɔɪ/, /ˈtravɔɪ/, U.S. /trəˈvɔɪ/, /ˈtræˌvɔɪ/, /trəvˈwɑ/ Forms: see travois n. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: travois n. Etymology: < travois n. Originally and chiefly North American. Now chiefly historical. 1. transitive. To pull (a load) using a travois; spec. to haul (logs) over a short distance using such a means of transport (cf. travois n. 2). ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance by drawing along > draw along or haul [verb (transitive)] > haul timber > by specific method travois1877 society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > transport of goods in a vehicle > transport goods in vehicle [verb (transitive)] drawc1300 freight1540 consign1653 run1701 haul1741 ship1857 travois1908 1877 Green Bay (Wisconsin) Advocate 1 Mar. 3/9 John Ainsworth, of Waukechon, had one leg broken twice while travoying logs. 1908 E. B. Bronson Reminisc. of Ranchman ix. 235 The pole was travoised back to camp. 1974 Western Folklore 35 143 The first trees felled in our country were travoised and sledded out of the woods. 2014 B. Holbert Hour of Lead iii. 27 Indians travoising a deer carcass and badger skins or hauling a wounded man to a Nez Perce healer. 2. intransitive. To use a travois to transport a load; to travel with one's possessions transported in this way. Cf. travois n. rare.In quot. 1878: with reference to hauling logs; cf. travois n. 2. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance by drawing along > draw along or haul [verb (intransitive)] > haul timber by specific method travois1878 society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance by drawing along > draw along or haul [verb (intransitive)] drawa1398 travois1914 1878 Oshkosh (Wisconsin) Daily Norhwestern 29 Jan. 2/2 The outlook for the jobbers is not at all reassuring. Those who have short enough hauls to travoy are not much more than paying expenses. 1914 E. B. Bronson Vanguard xi. 208 He quickly finished trading with me..and early in the afternoon had struck his tepees and was travoising away into the north! 1951 See Everything in Montana (Montana State Highway Commission) Montana's original inhabitants didn't camp long in one place. They much preferred wrapping up their lodges or teepees and travoising across the country. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1867v.1877
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