travoising

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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