travois

/truh-voi/US // trəˈvɔɪ //UK // (trəˈvɔɪ) //

拖车,拖拉机,拖鞋,拖轮

Definitions

n.名词 noun

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plural tra·vois [truh-voiz]. /trəˈvɔɪz/.
- : a transport device, formerly used by the Plains Indians, consisting of two poles joined by a frame and drawn by an animal.

Now our worldly goods were increasing, so I cut down two lodge poles and made a little travois for the dog.
Travois were loaded with household goods, or carried women too old and children too young to walk or ride horseback.
These Indians have a large number of ugly dogs, and sometimes they hitch them to their travois.
She snatched him off the travois, but he struggled out of her arms to look upon his dog lovingly and admiringly.
The youthful Gall was in a travois, a basket mounted on trailing poles and harnessed to the sides of the animal.