travoy, n.
(trəˈvɔɪ)
[A broad vocalization of travày, Canadian pronunc. of French travail: see travois, -voise n. So called from its analogy to the Indian travày or travail.]
In Lumbering, a sledge used in dragging logs; one end of the log rests on the sledge and the other trails on the ground.
| 1878 Lumberman's Gaz. 2 Feb. 87 The haul at the former camp is too long to use travoys. Ibid. 9 Feb., The ‘travoy’ is kept busy on short hauls. |
| attrib. 1901 Munsey's Mag. XXV. 387/1 These ‘travoy-roads’—the name comes from the French travois—have to be cleared by the ‘swampers’. Ibid. 387/2 While the travoy road is in the process of construction. |
Hence
traˈvoy v. trans. and intr., to use a travoy, to haul (logs) by means of a travoy; whence
traˈvoying vbl. n.| 1878 Lumberman's Gaz. 2 Feb. 86 Travoying can be carried on to good advantage. Ibid. 87 Those who have short enough hauls to travoy are not much more than paying expenses. 1901 Munsey's Mag. XXV. 386/1 Second, it must be ‘travoyed’ from a hundred yards to a mile; third, it is hauled on sleighs as far as fifteen or sixteen miles; fourth, it is driven down a river, and I have known drives three hundred miles in length. |