See also: mush ((v.)) (def. 2b) mushing (def. 1)
- c1900  (1963)  Way up north there's a railroad,
That was built on a track of gold;
It followed the tracks of the mushers,
Where they grasped the rocks for a hold. - 1921  A musher in soft wet snow can only go at a certain pace. Any attempt to quicken the pace results only in a fall. The shoe cannot be pushed ahead as when the snow is well-packed or crusted. It has to be deliberately lifted, putting the leg tendons to an unnatural strain.
- 1958  The volunteer was no hardened musher, but a steamboat man named George Williams, who with an Indian companion set off on a terrifying journey
2 n. a person who drives a dog team.