What is "travoises"

Usage examples of "travoises".

Seriously wounded were piled onto travoises and pulled far enough away so their cries would not cause confusion.

The charred bodies of two alien members were carefully placed on travoises -- more carefully than the wounded troopers had been -- and hauled off.

The snow was not yet deep, and it aided them in dragging the travoises over the hardening ground.

The hardest thing to leave was the bulk of the firewood, but the loss of the travoises made it necessary.

Then everybody helped line up the three travoises, and Tregare got his sticks loose, and he and Rissa lashed them across to form one frame¬work, the three units parallel and about four decimeters apart.

Rissa and Trent rigged flotation units to the travoises and Tregare inflated them.

Tregare and others deflated the buoyancy units and dragged the travoises up to safety.

And before mid-afternoon they slipped and slogged through mud-separating the travoises now-and reached dry ground.

The loaded travoises below the ledge were covered with an inch of flakes.

Without discussion, Joe and Con loaded up their travoises and headed out.

They were strapped into travoises, and hauled out of sight over the hill's edge.

They took turns dragging the travoises that were loaded with most of their Starlab food, three of them at a time with Rosaleen limping painfully along when she could and riding on Martin’s back when she couldn’t, and the other two following behind to pick up whatever rations fell from a travois and toss them back onto the pile.