musher

Etymology

mush + -er

noun

  1. One who operates a dogsled, traditionally using the verbal command “mush”.
    A sled dog learns that by the time she’s hungry, her musher has already prepared a meal; by the time she’s tired, she has a warm bed. 2020-09-23, Blair Braverman, “What My Sled Dogs Taught Me About Planning for the Unknown”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
  2. One who travels by dogsled.
  3. One who races in a dogsled in a race.

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