Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
From Scottish Gaelic pillean (“little rug”), from Latin pellis (“animal skin, pelt”).
pl siedząc z tyłu (riding behind the driving rider) · es de paquete (riding behind the driving rider) · ga ar cúlóg (riding behind the driving rider) · fi en croupe (riding behind the driving rider)
From Scottish Gaelic pillean (“little rug”), from Latin pellis (“animal skin, pelt”).
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.1861, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter XI, in Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC:
She was to creep out quietly […] and meet me at our usual trysting place—a spot a few hundred yards from our respective abodes. I would be there with my iron steed, and on the pillion thereof would whirl her into fairyland.1927, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados Mysteries:
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| pillions | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
de Sattelkissen (pad behind horse's saddle) · pl pasażer (person riding in the pillion) · es asiento de pasajero (second saddle on a motorcycle) · ca passatger (person riding in the pillion) · fi takasatula (pad behind horse's saddle) · es grupera (pad behind horse's saddle) · sv bönpall (second saddle on a motorcycle) · sv passagerarsadel (second saddle on a motorcycle) · fr siège passager (second saddle on a motorcycle) · bg задна седалка (second saddle on a motorcycle) · de Sozius (person riding in the pillion) · de Sozius (second saddle on a motorcycle) · de Soziussitz (second saddle on a motorcycle) · fi matkustaja (person riding in the pillion) · pl miejsce do siedzenia za jeźdźcem (pad behind horse's saddle) · de Sozia (person riding in the pillion) · es asiento trasero (second saddle on a motorcycle) · ga cúlóg (person riding in the pillion) · es pasajero de paquete (person riding in the pillion) · pl pasażerka (person riding in the pillion) · pl tylne siodełko (second saddle on a motorcycle) · ga cúlóg (pad behind horse's saddle) · fi takasatula (second saddle on a motorcycle)
From Scottish Gaelic pillean (“little rug”), from Latin pellis (“animal skin, pelt”).
When he had gazed at the stars sufficiently as they shone over his mistress's window, and put her candle to bed, repaired to his own dormitory, and there, no doubt, thought of his Maria and his horse with youthful satisfaction, and how sweet it would be to have one pillioned on the other, and to make the tour of all the island on such an animal with such a pair of white arms round his waist.1857–1859, W[illiam] M[akepeace] Thackeray, The Virginians. A Tale of the Last Century, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1858–1859, →OCLC:
But we thought she could start out by pillioning me, and then she can decide whether she still wants to learn to ride her own little bike.2018, Sue McDonagh, Summer at the Art Cafe, →ISBN:
A ferlie (fairy) he spied with his ee, And there he saw a lady bright, Come riding down by the Elldon tree"— a lady who had "fifty siller bells and nine" on each lock of her horse's mane, and who pillioned Thomas the Rhymer, and took him, "red blude to the knee," thorugh the mirk, mirk night, to the place where "They saw neither sun nor moon."1933, The Sussex County Magazine - Volume 7, page 51:
I caught the train just after you went (it was a good idea, that pillion ride - though pretty awful pillioning with a suitcase and masterpiece in one's arms!) and dumped the m-p in London on Emery Walker, to be photographed half size and collotyped, 100 copies.1935 January 31, Thomas Edward Lawrence, Letter to Pat Knowles:
I met a Latvian lass who enjoyed pillioning, showed me her country and best spots — yes, the best way to enjoy a country!2011, Al Culler, Motorcycle Travels and Travails:
Accordingly, he saddled and pillioned his horse, thinking he might have the honor of bringing the bride himself.1764, Dennis Donovan, Jacob Andrews Woodward, The History of the Town of Lyndeborough, New Hampshire,1735-1905:
Noisy congratulations followed ; then the swiftest horse was chosen, and saddled, bridled, and pillioned.1872, George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates, Temple Bar - Volume 34, page 407:
But ordher one iv yer men to pillion the horse in a jiffy, for onct we get hoult iv the money bags, we must be off, or Tom Riddle won't lave a bone in my body but he'll break into smithereens.1871, Paul Peppergrass, The Spaewife ; Or, The Queens̓ Secret: A Story of the Reign of Elizabeth:
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| pillioned | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| pillioned | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| pillioning | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| pillions | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic |