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travoised

travoised is the simple past and past participle of travois.

Meaning of travois

Verb

travois (third-person singular simple present travoises, present participle travoising, simple past and past participle travoised)

  1. (broadly, transitive) To transport (someone or something) by means of a travois.
    • At White Sands, we found drag-marks made by the ends of wooden poles while excavating for fossil footprints. Sometimes these appear as just one trace, while at other times they occur as two parallel, equidistant traces. A pole or poles used in this fashion is called a travois. . . To help interpret...2025, Matthew Robert Bennett, Sally Christine Reynolds, Fossil footprints reveal what may be the oldest known handcarts
  2. (intransitive, rare) To use a travois to transport a load.

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Questions about travoised

What is travoised the simple past and past participle of?
Travoised is the simple past and past participle of travois.

Words near travoised in the dictionary

  1. Travis County
  2. Travis picking
  3. travises
  4. travois
  5. travoise
  6. travoised
  7. travoises
  8. travoising
  9. travolator
  10. travolators
  11. Travolt

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Adapted from Wiktionary: travoised (page history and authors); travois (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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