DCHP-3

lead dog

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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in a dog team, the dog, sometimes a female, who leads the team, setting the pace and carrying out the driver's commands.

See: leader(def. 2)

Quotations

1934
. . . I leapt from the carriole, held the team while John circled the dangerous air-hole and grabbed the lead-dog of the other train, dragging him upon the ice.
1965
The 38-year-old civil servant, who has been a musher for three years, claims that the key to a successful team is a good lead dog.