Forms: α. 5 traveys, 6 traveis, 8 travice; β. 6 trevys, 9 trevis. [A variant of TRAVERSE sb. in sense of OF. travers (= ‘travail, machine pour ferrer’ in Godef., who cites ‘Ung travers a ferrer chevaulx’ from a document of 1472), ad. L. traversum.
In Eng. the word has undergone the same popular deformation as TRAVERSE sb. and v., and is now identified in form with next, of which indeed in the Eng. Dial. Dict. it is treated as a sense.]
A framework or railed enclosure in which restive horses are put to be shod; a smith’s shoeing shed; = TRAVE sb. 2.
α. 14[?]. Voc., in Wr.-Wülcker, 617/19. Tramerium, traveys, ergasterium idem est.
1583. Burgh Rec. Edinb. (1882), IV. 287. To sett vp ane traveis of tymmer for shoing of horsis besyde his smiddy.
1727. Bailey, vol. II., Travice, a small Inclosure … consisting of four Pillars or Posts, kept together by cross Poles, for keeping in and holding unruly Horses in the time of Shoeing, or any other Operation.
1905. in Eng. Dial. Dict., s.v. Traverse, recorded from Cheshire, E. Anglia, Sussex.
β. 1530. Palsgr., 283/1. Trevys to shoe a wylde horse in, trauayl a cheual.
1831. Youatt, Horse, xxii. (1847), 430. The trevis is a machine indispensable in every continental forge.
