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noun

Trave n.

(Arch.) A crossbeam; a lay of joists.

A wooden frame to confine an unruly horse or ox while shoeing. "She sprung as a colt doth in the trave."

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Etymology of 'Trave'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Trave" Quotes from Famous Books

... baggage to the river-side and journey down the river Trave to steam-boat at Travemunde, ...

— Letters of George Borrow - to the British and Foreign Bible Society • George Borrow

... most uncertain and contradictory accounts came to hand. It was, however, certain that a landing of the Russians was expected at Stralsund, or at Travemtinde, the port of Lubeck, at the mouth of the little river Trave. I was positively informed that Russia had freighted a considerable number of vessels ...

— Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, Complete • Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne