DCHP-3

dog-runner

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n.

a person who drives a dog team.

Quotations

1911
They were young men and dog-runners; I was left behind and was getting so tired now I could not keep warm.
1939
In earlier days they had handled the situation by contracting a so-called country marriage . . . marrying their half-breed daughters to dog-runners or hunters.