Definitions for travois

travois tra·vois

Spelling: [truh-voi]
IPA: /trəˈvɔɪ/

Travois is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 247 anagrams from letters in travois (aiorstv).

Definitions for travois

noun

  1. a transport device, formerly used by the Plains Indians, consisting of two poles joined by a frame and drawn by an animal.

Origin of travois

1840-50; Americanism; pseudo-French spelling of earlier travoy North American French; compare Canadian French travail shaft of a cart to which the horse is hitched, French: frame in which unr

Examples for travois

At this point Blake joined Helen and Bill, and as he did so he espied the travois.

The next day the chief gave orders to hitch the dogs to the travois and move camp.

“There are no travois, only mounted men, no women,” St. Antoine remarked.

Figs. 204 and 205 show the famous Indian mode of packing by travois.

A dog could draw more on a travois, or pole-frame, than he could carry on his back.

On the trail the daughter, who had charge of one of the travois, had fallen behind on account of a broken travois.

Dogs were also used for packing—both on back and by travois.

The travois was introduced into this region by the late Charles Planchek?

Whenever the camp moved the stone and travois were taken along.

The photograph reproduced in plate 14 shows a Cheyenne family group, an interesting example of a travois, and part of a lodge.

Word Value for travois
Scrable

10

Words with friends

11

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