musher1
/ˈmʌʃə
/noun
The driver of a dog sled.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....
- The gallery ends with a display contrasting an old-time musher with someone geared for modern dog sled travel.
- I'm finally back in my room and feeling a special sort of sympathy for Iditarod mushers.
musher2
/ˈmʌʃə/noun 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.