Travois

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• travois — ● travois nom masculin (peut être mot dialectal, de l ancien français trev, poutre) Système de traction élémentaire, constitué de deux perches attachées par une extrémité à un animal, l autre traînant sur le sol. ⇒TRAVOIS, subst. masc. ,,Traîneau …   Encyclopédie Universelle

• travois — [trəvoiz′trə voi′] n. pl. travois [trəvoiz′] or travoises [trəvoi′ziz] [CdnFr < travail, a brake, load < Fr: see TRAVAIL] a crude sledge of the North American Plains Indians, consisting of a net or platform dragged along the ground on the… …   English World dictionary

• 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… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• travois — 1847, ultimately from a Canadian Indian pronunciation of TRAVAIL (Cf. travail) …   Etymology dictionary

• Travois — Cheyenne family using a horse drawn travois, 1890. A travois (Canadian French, from French travail, a frame for restraining horses; also obsolete travoy or travoise) is a frame used by indigenous peoples, notably the Plains Indians of North… …   Wikipedia

• Travois — Ein Travois (der in Deutschland verwendete archäologische Begriff heißt „Schleife“) ist ein Transportmittel aus der weglosen menschlichen Vor und Frühgeschichte. Der Travois (vom französischen travail, einem Bügel zum Zurückhalten von Pferden)… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

• travois — noun (plural travois; also travoises) Etymology: American French travail, from Canadian French, shaft of a cart, from Middle French traveil catafalque, prop, from Late Latin trepalium instrument of torture more at travail Date: 1847 a simple… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• travois — /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 < North American F; cf. CanF… …   Universalium

• travois — noun /trəˈvɔɪ/ a traditional North American Indian horse drawn vehicle , 1994: Riding out for wood he watched his shadow and the shadow of the horse and travois cross those palings tree by tree. Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing …   Wiktionary

• Travois — Tra|vois [... vo̯a] das; [... vo̯a(s)], [... vo̯as] <aus gleichbed. frankokanad. travois, dies aus dem Indian.> Transportmittel der nordamerik. Indianer aus zwei an ein Pferd od. einen Hund gebundenen Stangen …   Das große Fremdwörterbuch