travois

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

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.[Webster 1913 Suppl.]

2.A logging sled. [Northern U. S. & Canada] [Webster 1913 Suppl.]