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noun ˈmʌʃəˈməSHər The driver of a dog sled. Example sentencesExamples - The dog team and its musher would go flying past.
- I'm finally back in my room and feeling a special sort of sympathy for Iditarod mushers.
- This is a form of transportation that requires no motor but relies heavily on trust between a team of dogs and their musher.
- To complete the course, she'll depend on a musher riding ahead and radioing back warnings of low branches, obstinate moose, and open water.
- But they also tell their story in a style straightforward enough that readers will be swept up in the drama of how 20 mushers covered nearly 700 miles in about six days.
- Most mushers start with the maximum-allowed team of 16 dogs but settle down to 12 to 14 for the main haul beyond Rainy Pass.
- Winning mushers incredibly cover the distance in just nine to 12 days.
- The mushers we work with all adore their animals.
- People unfamiliar with sled-dog racing think the Iditarod is won by the best musher.
- After an hour or so, the musher stopped to wait for the skiers to catch up.
- They must be able to make good decisions in guiding the team, and with a maximum of two to three hours of sleep each day, many mushers suffer from severe sleep deprivation, often resulting in failed concentration and hallucinations.
- On the day that mushers from around the world met in Anchorage for the 1150-mile ‘last great race on Earth’, some friends and I hurtled for 15 miles across the Norwegian mountains, feeling very brave indeed.
- The gallery ends with a display contrasting an old-time musher with someone geared for modern dog sled travel.
- Top mushers are always spying on each other, looking for ploys to shave time - like how the other guy gets 64 booties on and off his dogs at a rest stop.
- Climbers atop Everest phone home via portable satellite dishes, while pocket-size global positioning systems guide mushers on the Yukon Quest trail.
- Just 10 minutes earlier, Smith had introduced me and a few other first-time mushers to dogsledding, and now I found myself listening to the excited baying of my dogs, who obviously were more confident about dashing into the forest than I was.
- Several hours on the sled and I was beginning to consider myself a real hard-core musher.
- But we continued to zoom past the wooden posts with yellow bands on them, marking the no man's land, a two kilometre wide border between Finland and Russia where not even mushers may roam.
- They react to the commands of their musher, acting as the steering, accelerator and brakes.
- It was very exciting to watch as 10 teams took off with mushers from Wisconsin, Alaska, Yukon and Saskatchewan.
noun ˈmʌʃəˈməSHər British informal A person who owns and drives a taxi cab.
Origin Late 19th century: from slang mush 'owner-driver of a cab', from mushroom, apparently referring to the increase in the number of vehicles owned as the business grows. nounˈməSHər The driver of a dogsled. Example sentencesExamples - The gallery ends with a display contrasting an old-time musher with someone geared for modern dog sled travel.
- To complete the course, she'll depend on a musher riding ahead and radioing back warnings of low branches, obstinate moose, and open water.
- Most mushers start with the maximum-allowed team of 16 dogs but settle down to 12 to 14 for the main haul beyond Rainy Pass.
- They react to the commands of their musher, acting as the steering, accelerator and brakes.
- Top mushers are always spying on each other, looking for ploys to shave time - like how the other guy gets 64 booties on and off his dogs at a rest stop.
- Several hours on the sled and I was beginning to consider myself a real hard-core musher.
- The dog team and its musher would go flying past.
- I'm finally back in my room and feeling a special sort of sympathy for Iditarod mushers.
- This is a form of transportation that requires no motor but relies heavily on trust between a team of dogs and their musher.
- But they also tell their story in a style straightforward enough that readers will be swept up in the drama of how 20 mushers covered nearly 700 miles in about six days.
- On the day that mushers from around the world met in Anchorage for the 1150-mile ‘last great race on Earth’, some friends and I hurtled for 15 miles across the Norwegian mountains, feeling very brave indeed.
- Just 10 minutes earlier, Smith had introduced me and a few other first-time mushers to dogsledding, and now I found myself listening to the excited baying of my dogs, who obviously were more confident about dashing into the forest than I was.
- Winning mushers incredibly cover the distance in just nine to 12 days.
- But we continued to zoom past the wooden posts with yellow bands on them, marking the no man's land, a two kilometre wide border between Finland and Russia where not even mushers may roam.
- The mushers we work with all adore their animals.
- They must be able to make good decisions in guiding the team, and with a maximum of two to three hours of sleep each day, many mushers suffer from severe sleep deprivation, often resulting in failed concentration and hallucinations.
- After an hour or so, the musher stopped to wait for the skiers to catch up.
- It was very exciting to watch as 10 teams took off with mushers from Wisconsin, Alaska, Yukon and Saskatchewan.
- People unfamiliar with sled-dog racing think the Iditarod is won by the best musher.
- Climbers atop Everest phone home via portable satellite dishes, while pocket-size global positioning systems guide mushers on the Yukon Quest trail.
nounˈməSHər British informal A person who owns and drives a taxi cab.
Origin Late 19th century: from slang mush ‘owner-driver of a cab’, from mushroom, apparently referring to the increase in the number of vehicles owned as the business grows. |