Musher

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The driver of a dog-team in arctic Alaska. The dog-teams are harnessed in the style customary among the Eskimos and the driver walks behind the team urging the dogs while a woman walks ahead of the dogs.
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  • noun. One who travels by dogsled, especially in a race.
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  • noun. a traveler who drives (or travels with) a dog team
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    "The word musher is derived from the French word 'Marche' yelled in French at the dogs in the eighteen hundreds, yet it's a Yukon Quest race symbol."
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    crusher  gusher  lusher  rusher  slusher  
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