musher
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- noun
- /ˈmʌʃər/
- Jargon
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musher
- With Alaska's beautiful and mountainous terrain serving as the backdrop for the event, brave mushers gathered with their excited dogs, filling the streets with a lively buzz of excitement.
- a dog musher
- Iditarod musher
- mushers in a race
Examples
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The 25-musher field is full of veterans and rookies alike, including Iditarod champion Lance Mackey and several perennial Iditarod mushers as well.
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Once in Eagle, the mushers will have a potlatch dinner, a dance, and a sweat bath before starting the actual race on December 29 as they head back to Eagle.
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Any musher will tell you the same.
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Do you honestly think any musher would put you on his team?
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For the mushers and their dogs nothing can match this moment.
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All mushers, get your dogs ready!
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He might be the greatest musher in all of Alaska.
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Iditarod mushers rarely make a fire, though they do carry propane to heat up some soup.
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It is a memorial run from Tok to Eagle, with the mushers paying their respects to the late native chief, Isaac Juneby.
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During the annual sled dog race, every musher eagerly awaited the starting signal.
Synonyms
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A person who guides animals that pull a carriage or wagon
A person who drives animals like horses to pull a wagon or plough
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Musher comes from the command mush that people used to tell sled dogs to move. That command comes from the French word marche, meaning 'go' or 'walk', and is like the English word march, so a musher is someone who drives a team of sled dogs.