DCHP-3

dog travail

Obs.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a simple wheel-less conveyance originally used by the Indians and made of two poles on which was a platform or net for holding a load, the contrivance being pulled by a dog. See picture at travois.

See: dog travois,travois(def. 1 and picture)

Quotations

1867
In a dog travail the cross of the poles rests on the back of the neck, and is kept in place by a . . . neck strap; the poles are wrapped with pieces of buffalo robe where they press against the dog.