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]