/treuh voy"/ , n. , pl. travois /-voyz"/ .
a transport device, formerly used by the Plains Indians, consisting of two poles joined by a frame and drawn by an animal.
[ 1840-50; Amer. ; pseudo-F sp. of earlier travoy travail shaft of a cart to which the horse is hitched, F: frame in which unruly horses are held while they are shod (prob. trepalium; see TRAVAIL) ]