Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- 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 bydogsled , especially in arace .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a traveler who drives (or travels with) a dog team
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Examples
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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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From Unalakleet, the largest town on the Iditarod trail between Anchorage and Nome, mushers drive their teams along the coast to Nome, an area of trail where storms can quickly move in from the Bering Sea and make or break a musher's dream of being crowned champion.
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From Unalakleet, the largest town on the Iditarod trail between Anchorage and Nome, mushers drive their teams along the coast to Nome, an area of trail where storms can quickly move in from the Bering Sea and make or break a musher's dream of being an Iditarod champion.
unknown title 2009
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Robb was recruited two years ago just after high school and says being a musher is his first real job.
Jamaica - Full Feed 2009
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Iditarod trail between Anchorage and Nome, mushers drive their teams along the coast to Nome, an area of trail where storms can quickly move in from the Bering Sea and make or break a musher's dream of being crowned champion., the 2004 winner, pulled out of Kaltag 5 minutes after King.
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From Unalakleet, the largest town on the Iditarod trail between Anchorage and Nome, mushers drive their teams along the coast to Nome, an area of trail where storms can quickly move in from the Bering Sea and make or break a musher's dream of being an Iditarod champion.
unknown title 2009
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What was once the home of champion Alaskan "musher" Jessie Arnold is now a pile of charred logs and ashes.
Dead North: Summary and book reviews of Dead North by Sue Henry. 2001
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The team was like the "musher," lean and wild-eyed, after their four hundred miles of merciless driving.
Colorado Jim George Goodchild
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Folsom's neighbor was a famous "musher," a seasoned, self-reliant man, thoroughly accustomed to all the hazards of winter travel, but ten miles from his destination he crossed an inch-deep overflow which rendered the soles of his muk-luks slippery, and ten yards further on, where the wind had laid the glare-ice bare, he lost his footing.
Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913
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It is never difficult to forward mail in the north, for every "musher" is a postman.
Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913
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