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musher
[< mush, v. + -er]
Esp. North
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1n.
a traveller on foot or snowshoe.
Quotations
<i>c</i>1900
Way up north there's a railroad,
That was built on a track of gold;
It followed the tracks of the mushers,
Where they grasped the rocks for a hold.
That was built on a track of gold;
It followed the tracks of the mushers,
Where they grasped the rocks for a hold.
1921
A musher in soft wet snow can only go at a certain pace. Any attempt to quicken the pace results only in a fall. The shoe cannot be pushed ahead as when the snow is well-packed or crusted. It has to be deliberately lifted, putting the leg tendons to an unnatural strain.
1958
The volunteer was no hardened musher, but a steamboat man named George Williams, who with an Indian companion set off on a terrifying journey
2n.
a person who drives a dog team.
See: dog-driver
Quotations
1922
I was to go with a dog-driver or "musher" named Stewart.
1944
[He gave] a brief account of the mysterious mushers on the lake, with their white dogs, and white clothes.
1965
Vern Zoschke . . . topped a field of 11 "mushers" to win the Kingston Winter Carnival's dog sled racing competition.
1966
. . . Paul Ben Kassi [is] the 53-year-old veteran musher from Old Crow [Y.T.].