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plural traves or travises
(obsolete) A wooden frame to confine a horse while the smith is setting his shoes.
(obsolete) A beam; a lay of joints; a traverse.
(British) A screen or partition between stable stalls. examples
comparative more travis, superlative most travis
(archaic) Lying across, traverse. quotations
The skiff at the bank bore a strange rigging of uprights and crosspoles and a travis bar with lines and hooks hanging from it.
1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree