musher

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a person who drives or travels with a team of sled dogs, especially in a dogsled race

   The musher checked every dog's harness before leaving the checkpoint.

From mush, the command and verb used for driving a dog team, + -er. Mush is generally connected with French marche or marchons, commands based on marcher, 'to walk or move.'

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