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.

2. A logging sled. [Northern U. S. & Canada]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)