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▪ I. pillion, n.1|ˈpɪljən|
Also 6 Sc. pilȝane, pyllyon, pyllen, 7 pillen, -ian, 8 pilion. Cf. also pilgate.
[app. of Celtic origin: in Irish pillín, Gaelic pillin, -ean, in same sense, dim. of pell (peall), gen. sing. and nom. pl. pill, couch, pallet, cushion (a. L. pellis skin, pelt, felt).
Pill occurs in the Boramha of the Bk. of Leinster, c 1160–1170 (pill cuilcthe cluimhe ‘pallet with downy coverlet’). Pillin was prob. adopted in Lowl. Sc. from Gaelic, in Eng. from Irish: cf. quot. a 1620. The Guernsey pillon cited by Moisy Gloss. Anglo-Normand from Métivier, may be from English, no such word occurring in French.]
a. A kind of saddle, esp. a woman's light saddle. Also, a pad or cushion attached to the hinder part of an ordinary saddle, on which a second person (usually a woman) may ride; also used for resting a mail or piece of luggage in transport: see mail pillion, s.v. mail n.3 4. Obs. exc. Hist. In modern use, a seat located behind the saddle of a motor cycle, on which a second person may ride. Hence to go pillion, ride pillion (cf. ride v. 1 d), sit pillion, to travel on this seat. Also transf.
The application in quot. 1878 is unusual, but anticipates use in the modern sense.
1503Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. II. 214 Item, for v elne claith of gold to be ane pilȝane to the Quene, quhen hir aun wes brint in Dalketh. 1530Palsgr. 254/1 Pyllyon for a woman to ryde on, hovsse à femme. 1571Wills & Inv. N.C. (Surtees) I. 361, ij owld chystes ijs. vjd.—j bodgett, on capcase & ij male piniors [? pillions] xijd.—ij armones jl. a1620Moryson Itin. iv. ii. v. (1903) 235 The Irish..vse no sadles, but either long narrow pillions bumbasted, or bare boardes of that fashion. 1628Wither Brit. Rememb. ii. 1774 To get her neighbors footstoole, and her pillian. 1688R. Holme Armoury iii. 397/2 In former times the Side sadle had only a Pillen fastned upon the Tree of the Sadle..over which Pillen and Tree was cast a Sadle⁓cloth. 1766Goldsm. Vic. W. x, Next, the straps of my wife's pillion broke down. 1820W. Irving Sketch Bk., Leg. Sleepy Hollow §54 Some of the damsels mounted on pillions behind their favourite swains. 1867Smiles Huguenots Fr. xii. (1880) 207 De Bostaquet rode first, with his sister behind him on a pillion. 1878Design & Work IV. 215/1 To use the electric light on a bicycle is very easy, if you can arrange to place upon a pillion behind you a large steam engine and boiler and a Gramme machine, the whole weighing only about 3 tons. 1911Motor Cycle 27 Apr. 481/1 The pillion or tandem seat is likely to become increasingly popular. 1923Weekly Dispatch 13 May 9 Riding his motor-cycle..with Miss Esther Gwyther, a nurse, on the pillion, he collided [etc.]. 1926T. E. Lawrence Seven Pillars (1935) iv. xliv. 255 He stopped babbling, and began to wail out his sorrows. I sat him, pillion, on the camel's rump; then stirred her up and mounted. 1927Glasgow Herald 31 Aug. 10 A clerk..on whose machine Miss Paterson was riding pillion. 1934T. S. Eliot Rock i. 21 But every son would have his motor cycle, And daughters ride away on casual pillions. 1958J. Betjeman Coll. Poems, And country girls with lips and nails vermilion Wait, nylon-legged, to straddle on the pillion. 1965Listener 27 May 785/1 They [sc. Vietnamese girls] ride bicycles, sit pillion on motor-bicycles, and manage their delightful floating garments with elegance and dignity at all times. 1973J. Wainwright Pride of Pigs 142, I got rid of my scooter, and started going pillion with Lance. 1979R. Rendell Make Death love Me iii. 30 Alan had once seen her get off the pillion of a boy's motor-bike.
b. attrib., as pillion gelding, pillion mail, pillion passenger, pillion ride, pillion rider, pillion-riding vbl. n. and ppl. adj., pillion seat; pillion cloth, a cloth placed under a pillion; pillion stick, a stick fastened in a pillion to hold luggage in place; pillion stone, a stone used to facilitate mounting to a pillion seat.
1648Public Rec. Colony of Connecticut (1850) I. 508, 1 sidesaddle and pillion cloath. 1684Essex Inst. Hist. Coll. (1888) XXV. 155 In the Kitchine..a sadle, pillyon and pillyon cloath. 1929J. De F. Shelton Salt-Box House iv. 34 Cuffee busied himself making sure that the dark blue pillion-cloth protected her dress from the horse's flank.
1539–40Rutland MSS. (1905) IV. 289 To Poppes man for bryngyng of on pyllen gyldyng for my Lady, xx d.
1818Scott Hrt. Midl. xli, That trunk is mine, and that there band-box, and that pillion mail, and those seven bundles, and the paper bag.
1973J. Wainwright Pride of Pigs 92 The pillion-passenger was thrown clear, but the motor-cyclist was pinned under his machine. 1976Deeside Advertiser 9 Dec. 24/3 A teenage motor cyclist died and his pillion passenger was injured in an accident on a sharp bend on the main Corwen-Chester Road at Treuddyn.
1935T. E. Lawrence Let. 31 Jan. (1938) 845 It was a good idea, that pillion ride. 1963L. Deighton Horse under Water xxiv. 107 Giorgio had got a pillion ride..with a two-stroke motor bike.
1920Motor Cycle 24 June 714/2 Motor-cyclists are summoned for having their number plates obscured by any part of a pillion-rider's dress. a1974R. Crossman Diaries (1975) I. 40 We had the most amiable cup of tea before driving home to Prescote through the fog, where I found that another pillion rider had come down with my third red box.
1920Motor Cycle 8 July 45/1 The local authorities have threatened a campaign against pillion riding. 1927W. E. Collinson Contemp. Eng. 35 Probably pillion-riding..will also be prohibited and dazzle head lights have to be dimmed. 1932H. S. Walpole Fortress i. 83 Many came in pillion-riding as for hundreds of years they had done, while the grander farmers were proud in the ‘shandy-carts’. 1970R.A.C. Guide & Handbk. 59/1 Pillion Riding. Only one passenger may be carried on a solo motor cycle, and..must be seated astride behind the driver on a proper pillion seat.
1878Cumberland Gloss., Pillion seat, a seat to fix behind the saddle for a female to ride on. Out of use since about 1830. 1911Motor Cycle 27 Apr. 418/2 A pillion seat, if not very sociable, certainly has some advantages. 1973J. Wainwright Pride of Pigs 88 The youth astride the Road Rocket kicked the starter... His companion settled himself on the pillion-seat.
1784J. F. D. Smyth Tour U.S.A. II. 248 All these papers were concealed in the mail pillion-sticks on which the servant carried his portmanteau. 1907Manch. Guardian 20 July 7/7 On one side of the porch is a horsing or pillion stone.
▪ II. † pillion, n.2 Obs.
Forms: 4 pylion, 4–6 pilioun, 5 pylyon, pelyone, pillyon, 5–6 pillion(e, pyllyon.
[app. a derivative of L. pīleus, pilleus cap (see pileus), which word it was used by Trevisa to render. No corresponding form has been found in other langs.]
A hat or cap, esp. of a priest or doctor of divinity.
1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) I. 217 Þei myȝte nouȝt in þe holy day suffre on hire piliouns and here cappes for hete [L. Quando non poterant præ calvitate diebus festivis pileum deferre]. c1420Lydg. Assembly of Gods 1577 Gregory and Ierome, Austyn and Ambrose, With pylyons on her hedys, stood lyke doctours. c1449Pecock Repr. i. xvi. 88 Summe werers of piliouns in scole of dyuynyte han scantli be worthi for to be in the same scole a good scoler. c1500in Peacock Stat. Cambridge App. A. p. lii, The Bedell shall gether of every Doctour Comensar..a Grote for hys Pylyon. 1515Barclay Egloges iv. (1570) C iv b/1 Mercury shall giue thee giftes manyfolde, His pillion, scepter, his winges and his harpe. a1562Cavendish Wolsey (1893) 30 Uppon hys [Wolsey's] hed a round pyllion with a nekke of blake velvett set to the same in the inner side.
attrib.a1400Morte Arth. 3461 Thane rysez the riche kynge... And one he henttis..A pavys pillione hatt, þat pighte was fulle faire With perry of þe oryent.
Hence † ˈpillioned a., wearing a pillion. Obs.
1553Bale Vacacyon 10 No mete mynisters..though they be neuer so gorgyously mytered, coped, and typpeted, or neuer so fynely forced, pylyoned and scarletted.
▪ III. † pillion, n.3 Obs.
(See quots.)
1778Pryce Min. Cornub. v. iii. 283 The pillion in the first and second of the stampings is separated from the scoria in the same manner as Copper Ore from its waste. Ibid. Gloss. 325 Pillion, the Tin which remains in the scoria or slags after it is first smelted, which must be separated and remelted. 1882Jago Cornish Dial. [from Pryce].
▪ IV. pillion, v.|ˈpɪljən|
[f. pillion n.1]
1. trans. To equip (a horse or saddle) with a pillion. Chiefly in pa. pple. or ppl. adj.
1843Knickerbocker XXII. 431 The cozy couple..ride..side by side upon the pillioned saddle. 1929J. D. Shelton Salt-Box House iv. 33 Thaddeus's best pacing-mare being duly saddled and pillioned. 1935W. Fortescue Perfume from Provence 234 They rode upon pillioned horses decorated with favours.
2. trans. To place on a pillion. Chiefly as ppl. a.
1906A. Noyes Drake I. ii. 59 Little the boy remembered of that flight, Pillioned behind his father. 1910W. De Morgan Affair of Dishonour iv. 46 A horseman here and there, alone or with a wench pillioned behind. 1958P. Mortimer Daddy's gone a-Hunting i. 8 A motor cycle turned into the road... She caught sight of..a pillioned girl with hair streaming.
3. intr. To ride on the pillion of a motor cycle. rare.
1935T. E. Lawrence Let. 31 Jan. (1938) 845 Pretty awful pillioning with a suitcase and masterpiece in one's arms! |