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Webster 1913 Edition


Pillion

Pil′lion

,
Noun.
[Ir.
pillin
,
pilliun
(akin to Gael.
pillean
,
pillin
), fr. Ir. & Gael.
pill
,
peall
, a skin or hide, prob. fr. L.
pellis
. See
Pell
,
Noun.
,
Fell
skin.]
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.
pil'yun, [L. pilus, hair, or from stuffing. See Pillow.]
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)

  1. 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.
  2. A similar second saddle on a motorcycle for a passenger.
  3. The person riding in the pillion.

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Adverb

pillion (comparative more pillion, superlative most pillion)

  1. Riding behind the driving rider, as when positioned on the rump of a mount.

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