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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
pillion
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
passenger
▪ There must be evidence, usually of the police officer's observations, that there was a pillion passenger.
▪ His pillion passenger is in hospital suffering from shock.
▪ The pillion passenger is being treated in the Gloucestershire Royal Hospital for abrasions and shock.
▪ In the past she has gone as a pillion passenger on husband Steve's bike.
▪ The plaintiff was a pillion passenger on a motor bike driven by the defendant.
▪ A man and his woman pillion passenger died instantly when they lost control of the machine and hit a wall.
■ VERB
ride
▪ I rode pillion &038; Bob in the sidecar, because the only spare helmet was too small for Bob.
▪ Tom had never before ridden pillion on a motorbike, but Andy the neighbour had a spare crash helmet.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ His pillion passenger is in hospital suffering from shock.
▪ I rode pillion & Bob in the sidecar, because the only spare helmet was too small for Bob.
▪ In the past she has gone as a pillion passenger on husband Steve's bike.
▪ Once he brought another famous theatrical knight on the pillion.
▪ The pillion passenger is being treated in the Gloucestershire Royal Hospital for abrasions and shock.
▪ The plaintiff was a pillion passenger on a motor bike driven by the defendant.
▪ There must be evidence, usually of the police officer's observations, that there was a pillion passenger.
▪ Tom had never before ridden pillion on a motorbike, but Andy the neighbour had a spare crash helmet.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pillion

Pillion \Pil"lion\, n. [Ir. pillin, pilliun (akin to Gael. pillean, pillin), fr. Ir. & Gael. pill, peall, a skin or hide, prob. fr. L. pellis. See Pell, n., Fell skin.] 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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
pillion

kind of saddle, c.1500, of Celtic origin (compare Irish pillin, Gaelic pillin), ultimately from Latin pellis "skin, pelt" (see film (n.)).

Wiktionary
pillion

adv. Riding behind the driving rider, as when positioned on the rump of a mount. n. 1 A pad behind the saddle of a horse for a second rider. 2 A similar second saddle on a motorcycle for a passenger. 3 The person riding in the pillion.

WordNet
pillion

n. a seat behind the rider of a horse or motorbike etc.

Wikipedia
Pillion

Usage examples of "pillion".

Imogen was settled to ride pillion behind a solid, middle-aged soldier.

Sitting sideways on the pillion seat, she found her feet gave her no pain.

One of them lifted Imogen onto the pillion, and they set off jauntily to the castle.

He levered his great right leg across the pillion and all but fell off the opposite side.

Davies clambered on the pillion and Olly, with another triumphant shout, urged the machine forward.

He was climbing on to the pillion of the Harley Davidson as he said it.

I should propose that you should ride as a well to do trader to Malaga, with your wife behind you on a pillion, and your friend here as your servant.

This was accomplished in two days, Geoffrey riding with Dolores on a pillion behind him with her baby in her lap, while young Lionel was on the saddle before his uncle.

Some of the mounted grooms wore massive belts for the support of the more fragile young ladies who took their horse exercise pillion style.

Grooms with pillion riders were hard set to restrain their mounts that stampeded in pursuit.

Sterrin recalled the spectacle of Belle fastened to the groom by a hook attached to her big pillion belt and holding on to him around the waist.

Their horses were saddled and waiting in the stable yard, horse-hair pillion pads attached to the rear of the saddles.

He lifted her onto the pillion pad without ceremony and Pippa wisely held her tongue.

He caught her up, almost threw her onto the pillion pad, and mounted before her, shoving the flagon into a saddlebag.

Jadwiga slumped against my back, then started to slide out of the pillion seat.