musher

mush +‎ -er

• Rhymes: -ʌʃə(ɹ)

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musher (plural mushers)

1. One who operates a dogsled, traditionally using the verbal command “mush”.
   • 2020 September 23, Blair Braverman, “What My Sled Dogs Taught Me About Planning for the Unknown”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     A sled dog learns that by the time she’s hungry, her musher has already prepared a meal; by the time she’s tired, she has a warm bed.

2. One who travels by dogsled.
3. One who races in a dogsled in a race.

• dog musher

• hersum, rheums