1902 S. E. White vii. 52 A number of pines had been felled out on the ice, cut in logs, and left in expectation of ice thick enough to bear the travoy ‘dray’.
1957 31 509/1 The travois litter transporting the wounded.
2008 A. B. Kehoe vii. 148 Whether it was further contact, between Arctic dogsled users and ancestors of northern Plains Indians, that inspired Plains people to breed big dogs to carry packs and drag travois sleds, we do not know.