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mush·er | \ ˈmə-shər 
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\ plural mushers
Definition of musher
: one who drives a dogsled over snow
The Iditarod race started in 1925 after 20 mushers transported medicine to Nome, Alaska.— Libby Stanford
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The first known use of musher was in 1899
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