MUSHER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does musher mean? 

• MUSHER (noun)
  The noun MUSHER has 1 sense:

1. a traveler who drives (or travels with) a dog team

  Familiarity information: MUSHER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MUSHER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A traveler who drives (or travels with) a dog team

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("musher" is a kind of...):

traveler; traveller (a person who changes location)

Derivation:

mush (travel with a dogsled)

mush (drive (a team of dogs or a dogsled))

 Context examples 

"Must 'a' thought he had hold of seventeen devils," the dog-musher sniggered.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

"I'd prefer being taken for a prospector or a dog-musher."

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

For three days Perrault and François threw chests up and down the main street of Skaguay and were deluged with invitations to drink, while the team was the constant centre of a worshipful crowd of dog-busters and mushers.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

The dog-musher laid his hand on Beauty Smith's shoulder and faced him to the right about.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

"Won't come to the hand that's fed 'm all these months," the dog-musher muttered resentfully.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The dog-musher put the rifle down solemnly, then turned and looked at his employer.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

"Listen to that, will you!" the dog-musher exclaimed at supper one night.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

"I do believe that wolf's on to you," the dog-musher said.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

"I'm agreein' with you," the dog-musher answered, and Weedon Scott was not quite sure whether or not the other had snickered.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

"But how in the name of the great Sardanapolis he knows you're goin' is what gets me," the dog-musher continued innocently.

(White Fang, by Jack London)