On the plains they will have horses dragging travoises, dogs with travoises, women and children loaded with impedimenta, […]
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Travois
//tɹəˈvɔɪ//
Synonyms for "travois"
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3 entriesTranslations
37 translations across 25 languages.
Blackfoot
2 entries- manistsí noun (frame used by indigenous peoples (notably the Plains Aboriginals of North America) to drag loads over land)
- manistsí’sstaan noun (frame used by indigenous peoples (notably the Plains Aboriginals of North America) to drag loads over land)
Bulgarian
1 entries- травуа́ noun (frame used by indigenous peoples (notably the Plains Aboriginals of North America) to drag loads over land)
Catalan
1 entries- travois noun (frame used by indigenous peoples (notably the Plains Aboriginals of North America) to drag loads over land)
Cheyenne
1 entries- amėstó'eeseo'o noun (frame used by indigenous peoples (notably the Plains Aboriginals of North America) to drag loads over land)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 印第安雪橇 noun (frame used by indigenous peoples (notably the Plains Aboriginals of North America) to drag loads over land)
Cree
2 entries- akotâpân noun (frame used by indigenous peoples (notably the Plains Aboriginals of North America) to drag loads over land)
- yîkihtawitâpânâsk noun (frame used by indigenous peoples (notably the Plains Aboriginals of North America) to drag loads over land)
Crow
1 entries- aláakko noun (frame used by indigenous peoples (notably the Plains Aboriginals of North America) to drag loads over land)
Danish
1 entries- travois noun (frame used by indigenous peoples (notably the Plains Aboriginals of North America) to drag loads over land)
Dutch
1 entries- travois noun (frame used by indigenous peoples (notably the Plains Aboriginals of North America) to drag loads over land)
Estonian
1 entries- aislohisti noun (frame used by indigenous peoples (notably the Plains Aboriginals of North America) to drag loads over land)
Finnish
4 entries- purilaat noun (frame used by indigenous peoples (notably the Plains Aboriginals of North America) to drag loads over land)
- purilaat noun (similar piece of equipment used to transport something by dragging; especially a stretcher dragged by a horse, mule, etc., used to transport an ill or injured person)
- tukkikelkka noun (sled dragged by a horse or ox to transport logs)
- kantaa purilailla verb ((transitive) to transport (someone or something) by means of a travois; (intransitive) to use a travois to transport loads)
French
1 entries- travois noun (frame used by indigenous peoples (notably the Plains Aboriginals of North America) to drag loads over land)
German
2 entries- Stangenschleife noun (frame used by indigenous peoples (notably the Plains Aboriginals of North America) to drag loads over land)
- Zuggeschir noun (frame used by indigenous peoples (notably the Plains Aboriginals of North America) to drag loads over land)
Italian
1 entries- treggia noun (frame used by indigenous peoples (notably the Plains Aboriginals of North America) to drag loads over land)
Lakota
2 entries- hupá noun (frame used by indigenous peoples (notably the Plains Aboriginals of North America) to drag loads over land)
- hupáwaheyuŋpi noun (frame used by indigenous peoples (notably the Plains Aboriginals of North America) to drag loads over land)
Latvian
1 entries- trevojs noun (frame used by indigenous peoples (notably the Plains Aboriginals of North America) to drag loads over land)
Macedonian
1 entries- траво́а noun (frame used by indigenous peoples (notably the Plains Aboriginals of North America) to drag loads over land)
Menominee
1 entries- saqnawāhkosew noun (frame used by indigenous peoples (notably the Plains Aboriginals of North America) to drag loads over land)
Ojibwe
1 entries- niswaakodaabaan noun (frame used by indigenous peoples (notably the Plains Aboriginals of North America) to drag loads over land)
Pawnee
1 entries- raarukaʼiituʼ noun (frame used by indigenous peoples (notably the Plains Aboriginals of North America) to drag loads over land)
Russian
4 entries- воло́ка noun (frame used by indigenous peoples (notably the Plains Aboriginals of North America) to drag loads over land)
- волоку́ша noun (frame used by indigenous peoples (notably the Plains Aboriginals of North America) to drag loads over land)
- волочня́ noun (frame used by indigenous peoples (notably the Plains Aboriginals of North America) to drag loads over land)
- волочу́га noun (frame used by indigenous peoples (notably the Plains Aboriginals of North America) to drag loads over land)
Spanish
1 entries- travois noun (frame used by indigenous peoples (notably the Plains Aboriginals of North America) to drag loads over land)
Ukrainian
1 entries- волоку́ша noun (frame used by indigenous peoples (notably the Plains Aboriginals of North America) to drag loads over land)
Umatilla
1 entries- sapsanáwas noun (frame used by indigenous peoples (notably the Plains Aboriginals of North America) to drag loads over land)
West-Frisian
1 entries- travois noun (frame used by indigenous peoples (notably the Plains Aboriginals of North America) to drag loads over land)
Sample sentences
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Riding out for wood he watched his shadow and the shadow of the horse and travois cross those palings tree by tree. Boyd rode in the travois holding the axe as if he'd keep guard over the wood they'd gathered […]
Source: wiktionary
At White Sands, we found drag-marks made by the ends of wooden poles while excavating for fossil footprints. Sometimes these appear as just one trace, while at other times they occur as two parallel, equidistant traces. A pole or poles used in this fashion is called a travois. . . To help interpret these features, we . . . used different combinations of poles to recreate simple, hand-pulled travois . . . In our experiments the pole-ends dragged along the mud truncate footprints in the same way as the fossil example in New Mexico. . . . the footprints and drag-marks tell a story of the movement of resources . . . Adults pulled the simple. . . travois, while a group of children tagged along. . . Travois are known from historical documents and accounts of Indigenous peoples and their traditions. They were . . .associated with dogs or horses, but were pulled by humans in our tests. . . they represent early examples of the handcart or wheelbarrow, but without the wheel.
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