TRAVOIS

[tra.vois] n, pl tra.vois also tra.voises [AmerF travail, fr. CanF, shaft of a cart, fr. MF traveil catafalque, prop, fr. LL trepalium instrument of torture--more at travail] (1847): a simple vehicle used by Plains Indians consisting of two trailing poles serving as shafts and bearing a platform or net for the load