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Webster 1913 Edition
Pillion
Pil′lion
,Noun.
1.
A panel or cushion saddle; the under pad or cushion of saddle; esp., a pad or cushion put on behind a man’s saddle, on which a woman may ride.
His [a soldier's] shank
pillion
without stirrups. Spenser.
Webster 1828 Edition
Pillion
PILLION
,Noun.
1.
A cushion for a woman to ride on behind a person on horseback.2.
A pad; a pannel; a low saddle.3.
The pad of a saddle that rests on the horse's back.Definition 2024
pillion
pillion
English
Noun
pillion (plural pillions)
- A pad behind the saddle of a horse for a second rider.
- 1861, George Eliot, “Chapter 11”, in Silas Marner:
- It was all the greater triumph to Miss Nancy Lammeter's beauty that she looked thoroughly bewitching in that costume, as, seated on the pillion behind her tall, erect father, she held one arm round him, and looked down, with open-eyed anxiety, at the treacherous snow-covered pools and puddles, which sent up formidable splashings of mud under the stamp of Dobbin's foot.
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- A similar second saddle on a motorcycle for a passenger.
- The person riding in the pillion.
Translations
pad behind horse's saddle
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second saddle on a motorcycle
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person riding in the pillion
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Adverb
pillion (comparative more pillion, superlative most pillion)
- Riding behind the driving rider, as when positioned on the rump of a mount.
Translations
riding behind the driving rider
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