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n. (context mushing English) one of the dogs at the front of the team, who set the pace.
Usage examples of "lead dog".
The lead dog yelped and flipped over backwards to fall howling and convulsing on to the ground.
Diego had been a thundercloud ready to burst until Ardis had reassured him that, except for the possible damage to her tail, the lead dog would completely recover from her mistreatment.
Yana agreed heartily and pulled the fur up to her face just as Sinead shouted to her lead dog, a big shaggy brindled female she had named Alice B.
Food, furs, some sewing for him, the best pups from the litters, and the best lead dog to train them.
Had Faeril measured, she would have found that the team was evenly spread out over a distance of nearly eighty feet from the first dog to the last, giving them room to run, and Faeril could see at most ten yards beyond the lead dog ere her vision gave out.
Sergeant-Driver Rihardo Terrazahis job was riding the left-hand lead dog in the gun's teamheaved at the trail of the gun.
Sergeant-Driver Rihardo Terraza his job was riding the left-hand lead dog in the gun's team heaved at the trail of the gun.
How he set himself up in front of the lead dog, jamming his forearm at its open jaws, bracing himself, throwing his other arm behind the dog's neck and shoving with one arm, jerking in with the other—.