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pil·lion

(pĭl′yən)

1. A pad or cushion for an extra rider behind the saddle on a horse or motorcycle.

2. A bicycle or motorcycle saddle.

[Probably from Scottish Gaelic pillean, diminutive of peall, rug, or Irish Gaelic pillín, diminutive of pell, rug, both from Old Irish pell, from Latin pellis, animal skin; see pel- in Indo-European roots.]

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pillion

(ˈpɪljən)

a seat or place behind the rider of a motorcycle, scooter, horse, etc

adv

on a pillion: to ride pillion.

[C16: from Gaelic; compare Scottish pillean, Irish pillīn couch; related to Latin pellis skin]

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pil•lion

(ˈpɪl yən)

n.

1. a pad or cushion attached behind the saddle of a horse, esp. as a seat for a woman.

2. a pad, cushion, or saddle used as a passenger seat on a bicycle, motorcycle, etc.

adv.

3. seated on a pillion: to ride pillion.

[1495–1505; < Scottish Gaelic pillinn or Irish pillín, diminutive of peall skin, rug blanket, Middle Irish pell < Latin pellis skin]

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Noun

pillion - a seat behind the rider of a horse or motorbike etc.

seat - any support where you can sit (especially the part of a chair or bench etc. on which you sit); "he dusted off the seat before sitting down"

Translations

مَقْعَد خَلْفي على دَرّاجَةٍ نارِيَّه

tandem

bagsædebagsæde-

Soziussitz

pótülés

aftursæti

sellino posteriore

užpakalinė sėdynė

aizmugures-

baksete

tandemový

arka sele

摩托车后座

pillion

[ˈpɪljən]

A. N (also pillion seat) → asiento m trasero

B. ADV to ride pillion → ir en el asiento trasero

C. CPD pillion passenger N → pasajero/a m/f de atrás

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

pillion

[ˈpɪljən]

n [motorcycle] → siège m arrière

modif [seat] → arrière pillion passenger

adv
to ride pillion (on motorcyle, bike) → être derrière; (on horse) → être en croupepillion passenger n → passager m (de la moto)

pillion

(on motorbike) → Soziussitz m; pillion passenger → Sozius m, → Beifahrer(in) m(f)

(Hist) → Damensattel m

adv to ride pillion → auf dem Sozius- or Beifahrersitz mitfahren; (on horse) → hinter dem Sattel sitzen

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

pillion

[ˈpɪljən]

1. n → sellino posteriore (di moto)

2. adv to ride pillion → viaggiare dietro

pillion

(ˈpiljən) noun

a passenger seat on a motorcycle. He drove the motorbike and she sat on the pillion; (also adjective) a pillion passenger/seat.

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After ladies had packed up their best gowns and top-knots in bandboxes, and had incurred the risk of fording streams on pillions with the precious burden in rainy or snowy weather, when there was no knowing how high the water would rise, it was not to be supposed that they looked forward to a brief pleasure.

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Some of the damsels mounted on pillions behind their favorite swains, and their light-hearted laughter, mingling with the clatter of hoofs, echoed along the silent woodlands, sounding fainter and fainter, until they gradually died away, --and the late scene of noise and frolic was all silent and deserted.

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He then pulled off his coat, and buttoned it round her, put his hat upon her head, wiped the blood from her face as well as he could with his handkerchief, and called out to the servant to ride as fast as possible for a side-saddle, or a pillion, that he might carry her safe home.