pillionn.²

Brit.

/ˈpɪljən/,

/ˈpɪlɪən/, U.S.

/ˈpɪljən/

Forms: late Middle English pylnys (plural), late Middle English 1700s pilion, 1500s pelyon, 1500s pinior (apparently transmission error), 1500s pullion, 1500s pyllen, 1500s pyllyon, 1500s–1600s pillen, 1500s– pillion, 1600s pillian, 1600s pillyon, 1600s pylion; Scottish pre-1700 pilȝan, pre-1700 pilȝane, pre-1700 pilȝeane, pre-1700 pilȝon, pre-1700 pilihon, pre-1700 pilleane, pre-1700 pilleone, pre-1700 1700s– pillion, pre-1700 1800s pullion, 1700s peilion; also Irish English (Wexford) 1800s pilleen. See also pilgate n.

Origin: Probably a borrowing from Irish. Etymon: Irish pillín.

Etymology: Probably < Irish pillín < peall animal skin, rug, pallet (Early Irish pell ; < classical Latin pellis pell n.¹). With use in Scotland compare (with different diminutive suffix) Scottish Gaelic pillean. Compare also Welsh pilyn (1547).

1. A type of saddle, spec. a light saddle used by women. Also: a pad or cushion attached behind a saddle, on which a second person may ride, or to which luggage may be fastened. Cf. mail pillion n. at mail n.² Compounds 3. Now chiefly historical or archaic.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > saddle > types of saddle

mail-saddle1360

trotter-saddle1381

panel1393

loadsaddle1397

packsaddle1398

limber-saddle1480

pillion1480

side-saddle1493

steel saddle1503

pilgate1511

mail pillowc1532

stock-saddle1537

pad1556

sunk1568

trunk-saddle1569

soda1586

mail pillion1586

running saddle1596

Scotch saddle1596

postilion saddle1621

pad-saddle1622

portmanteau-saddle1681

watering saddle1681

cart-saddle1692

demi-pique1695

crook-saddle1700

saddle pad1750

recado1825

aparejo1844

mountain saddle1849

somerset1851

pilch1863

cowboy saddle1880

sawbuck (pack)saddle1881

western saddle1883

cross-saddle1897

centre-fire1921

McClellan1940

poley1957

1480 Wardrobe Accts. Edward IV in N. H. Nicolas Privy Purse Expenses Elizabeth of York (1830) 163 Delyvered for to make off a pilion for the right high and right noble Princesse Lady Margarete.

a1500 Gloss. John of Garland in T. Wright Vocabularies (1857) 123 Pulvillos, pylnys.

1503 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1900) II. 214 Item, for v elne claith of gold to be ane pilȝane to the Quene, quhen hir aun wes brint in Dalketh.

1526 in G. J. Piccope Lancs. & Cheshire Wills (1857) I. 13 To Elizabeth my doghtour my pullion of wolsted.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 254/1 Pyllyon for a woman to ryde on, hovsse à femme.

a1630 F. Moryson in Shakespeare's Europe (1903) ii. v. 235 The Irish..vse no sadles, but either long narrow pillions bumbasted, or bare boardes of that fashion.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory 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.

1743 H. Bracken Farriery Improved (ed. 3) II. i. 28 The Pillion cannot sit justly upon the Spine.

1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield I. x. 97 Next the straps of my wife's pillion broke down.

1820 W. Irving Legend Sleepy Hollow in Sketch Bk. vi. 101 Some of the damsels..mounted on pillions behind their favourite swains.

1867 S. Smiles Huguenots Eng. & Ireland x. 243 De Bostaquet rode first, with his sister behind him on a pillion.

1901 R. de B. Trotter Galloway Gossip in N. Philip Penguin Bk. Sc. Folktales (1995) 388 It wus the fashion than for the women tae ride on the horse ahint the man, on a pillion.

1956 P. O'Brian Golden Ocean ii. 37 He does not care for a pillion.

1997 T. Pynchon Mason & Dixon 210 They decided to ride South, to view Stonehenge by moonlight,—she close and snug upon the Pillion.

2. A seat or flat pad located behind the saddle of a motorcycle (occasionally a bicycle) on which a second person may ride, or luggage may be carried.

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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicle propelled by feet > [noun] > cycle > parts and equipment of cycles > other parts of cycles

saddle1819

saddle pin1836

rest1855

pillion1878

Arab spring1880

carrier1885

coaster1895

bicycle basket1896

pacemaker1896

steering lock1897

headset1898

flapper-seat1916

stand1918

kick-stand1947

sissy bar1959

stabilizers1960

society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > motorcycle > [noun] > parts of

carrier1911

pillion1911

stand1918

drivetrain1938

kick-stand1947

twist grip1954

sissy bar1959

peg1965

hardtail1971

tank bag1974

top box1976

cockpit1993

1878 Design & Work 4 215/1 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.

1883 Cent. Mag. May 54/2 The faculty on the part of young men on bicycles of carrying their sweethearts behind them on a pillion.

1911 Motor Cycle 27 Apr. 481/1 The pillion or tandem seat is likely to become increasingly popular.

1954 J. Betjeman Few Late Chrysanthemums 74 And country girls with lips and nails vermilion Wait, nylon-legged, to straddle on the pillion.

1991 J. Kirkup Poet could not but be Gay (BNC) 180 When we went for a spin on your motor bike, with me like a ravished flapper on the pillion.

Phrases

to go (also ride, sit) pillion: to travel on a pillion, esp. on a motorcycle.

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society > travel > transport > motorcycling > [verb (intransitive)] > ride on pillion

to go (also ride, sit) pillion1852

1852 W. M. Thackeray Hist. Henry Esmond III. iii. iii. 95 You'll..be no happier with a coronet on your coach..than riding pillion with Lubin to market.

1895 Pall Mall Mag. Mar. 510 Roy Branton, who rode pillion, had an opportunity of studying his pilot's pretty hair.

1926 T. E. Lawrence Seven Pillars (subscribers' ed.) xlv. 236 I sat him, pillion, on the camel's rump; then stirred her up and mounted.

1973 J. Wainwright Pride of Pigs 142 I got rid of my scooter, and started going pillion with Lance.

1992 ‘B. Vine’ King Solomon's Carpet (BNC) 38 Tom had never before ridden pillion on a motorbike.

Compounds

C1.

† pillion mail n. Obsolete

ΚΠ

1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian iv, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. IV. 87 That trunk is mine, and that there band-box, and that pillion mail, and those seven bundles, and the paper bag.

pillion passenger n.

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1918 Times 1 Oct. 11/1 (advt.) High powered machines—especially those used for heavy side-car or pillion passenger work.

1993 J. Cooke Law of Tort (BNC) 91 The plaintiff was a pillion passenger on a motor bike driven by the defendant.

pillion ride n.

ΚΠ

1928 Helena (Montana) Independent 11 Oct. 3/5 A pillion ride of 1,500 miles has been accomplished by a Johannesburg girl.

2004 Sunday Times (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 2 May 14 People who didn't have motorcycle licences had to settle for a pillion ride.

pillion rider n.

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1893 Iowa City Daily Citizen 29 Jan. His labors alone could not make good pillion riders.

2003 Times (Nexis) 7 Oct. 2 The 26-year-old son of a leading Loyalist Volunteer Force paramilitary survived being shot in the head by a pillion rider on a motorcycle.

pillion riding n.

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1890 Lima (Ohio) Daily Times 14 Nov. 3/4 The incipient craze for ‘pillion riding’.

1995 J. Miller & M. Stacey Driving Instructor's Handbk. (ed. 8) v. 146 Driving Licence Endorsements..Unlawful pillion riding.

pillion seat n.

ΚΠ

1647 A. Eyre Diary 17 Mar. in C. Jackson et al. Yorks. Diaries (1877) 17 He promised to ryde with his wife to Derby, and wished me to bring him a pillion seate to cary her on.

1674 S. Fell Househ. Acct. Bk. 22 May (1920) 72 To m^o Rec^d of her more for a pillion seate, I sold her of Mothe^rs.

1878 W. Dickinson Gloss. Words & Phrases Cumberland (ed. 2) Pillion seat, a seat to fix behind the saddle for a female to ride on. Out of use since about 1830.

1992 R. Moulton & P. Lloyd Kites (BNC) 21 Peter Powell has flown trains of his kites..from a rear-facing pillion seat on a speeding motorcycle.

C2.

pillion cloth n. now historical a cloth placed under a pillion on a horse, usually to protect clothing from wear.

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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > saddle > parts of saddle

saddle-boweOE

arsonc1300

saddle skirt1361

saddle-tree1364

skirtc1400

saddle panel1465

stock-tree1470

stock1497

pommela1500

tree1535

pillion cloth1540

port1548

saddle stock1548

pilch1552

bolster1591

cantle1591

shank-pilliona1599

pillowc1600

pad1604

crutch1607

sivet1607

saddle crutcha1614

saddle eaves1663

saddle tore1681

burr1688

head1688

narve1688

saddle seat1688

sidebar1688

torea1694

quarter1735

bands of a saddle1753

witherband1764

withers1764

peak1775

pillion-stick1784

boot-housing1792

saddle flap1798

saddle lap1803

fork1833

flap1849

horn1849

skirting1852

hunting-horn1854

head-plate1855

saddle horn1856

cantle bar1859

leaping-horn1859

straining1871

stirrup-bar1875

straining-leather1875

spring tree1877

leaping-head1881

officer-tree1894

monkey1911

monkey-strap1915

thigh roll1963

straining-web-

1540 Inventory in State Papers Henry VIII (P.R.O.: SP 1/161) f. 59 A pillen clothe gardyd with velvet.

1648 in J. H. Trumbull Public Rec. Colony of Connecticut (1850) I. 508 1 sidesaddle and pillion cloath.

1774 T. Davies Lives E. Ashmole & W. Lilly 76 Having lost a pillion-cloth, a very new one.

1929 J. de F. Shelton Salt-box House iv. 34 The dark blue pillion-cloth protected her dress from the horse's flank.

† pillion gelding n. Obsolete rare (perhaps) a gelded horse saddled with a pillion.

ΚΠ

1539 in Hist. MSS Comm.: MSS Duke of Rutland (1905) IV. 289 in Parl. Papers (Cd. 2606) LXIII. 301 To Poppes man for bryngyng of on pyllen gyldyng..for my Lady, xx d.

† pillion-stick n. Obsolete a stick fastened in a pillion to hold luggage in place.

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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > saddle > parts of saddle

saddle-boweOE

arsonc1300

saddle skirt1361

saddle-tree1364

skirtc1400

saddle panel1465

stock-tree1470

stock1497

pommela1500

tree1535

pillion cloth1540

port1548

saddle stock1548

pilch1552

bolster1591

cantle1591

shank-pilliona1599

pillowc1600

pad1604

crutch1607

sivet1607

saddle crutcha1614

saddle eaves1663

saddle tore1681

burr1688

head1688

narve1688

saddle seat1688

sidebar1688

torea1694

quarter1735

bands of a saddle1753

witherband1764

withers1764

peak1775

pillion-stick1784

boot-housing1792

saddle flap1798

saddle lap1803

fork1833

flap1849

horn1849

skirting1852

hunting-horn1854

head-plate1855

saddle horn1856

cantle bar1859

leaping-horn1859

straining1871

stirrup-bar1875

straining-leather1875

spring tree1877

leaping-head1881

officer-tree1894

monkey1911

monkey-strap1915

thigh roll1963

straining-web-

1784 J. 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.

pillion stone n. now historical a stone from which to climb on to a pillion on a horse.

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society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > [noun] > mounting a horse > mounting-block

mounting place1490

riding block1570

block1614

mounting block1659

horsing stone1661

horsing-block1662

upping-stocka1697

joss-block1706

horse-block1713

mounting stone1794

upping-block1796

upping-stone1809

horse-steps1828

leaping-on-stone1837

stepping-stone1837

stirrup-stone1838

pillion stone1907

1907 Manch. Guardian 20 July 7/7 On one side of the porch is a horsing or pillion stone.

1996 Patriot Ledger (Quincy, Mass.) (Nexis) 28 Nov. 28 t The 1767 pillion stone outside the police-fire station.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	pillion
释义	† pillionn.¹ Forms: Middle English pelioun, Middle English pelyon, Middle English pilion, Middle English pilleon, Middle English pilleoun, Middle English pylion, Middle English pylioun, Middle English pylyon, Middle English pylyoun, Middle English–1500s pilioun, Middle English–1500s pillion, Middle English–1500s pillione, Middle English–1500s pyllyon, 1500s pyllion. N.E.D. (1906) also records forms late Middle English pelyone, late Middle English pillyon. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French pilion. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman pilion cap (end of the 13th cent. or earlier) < classical Latin pīleus pileus n., or its variants pilleus , pīleum , pilleum + French -on -oon suffix. N.E.D. (1906) gives the pronunciation as (pi·lyən) /ˈpɪljən/. Obsolete. A cap or hat, spec. a cap worn by a scholar, esp. a doctor of divinity. Also attributive, as pillion-hat. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > vestments > headgear > [noun] > hat > of priest or doctor of divinity pilliona1387 a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 217 (MED) 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]. c1440 (?a1400) Morte Arthure 3460 A pauys pillion-hatt, þat pighte was full faire With perry of þe Oryent and precyous stones. c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 88 (MED) Summe werers of piliouns in scole of dyuynyte han scantli be worthi for to be in the same scole a good scoler. c1500 (?a1475) Assembly of Gods (1896) 1577 (MED) Gregory and Ierome, Austyn and Ambrose With pylyons on her hedys stood lyke doctours. c1500 in G. Peacock Observ. Statutes Univ. Cambr. (1841) App. A. p. lii The Bedell shall gether of every Doctour Comensar..a Grote for hys Pylyon. ?1521 A. Barclay Bk. Codrus & Mynalcas sig. B^v Mercury shall gyue the, giftes manyfolde His pyllion septre, his wynges, and his harpe. ?a1562 G. Cavendish Life Wolsey (1959) 23 Vppon hys [sc. Wolsey's] hed a round pyllion w^t a nekke of blake velvett set to the same in the Inner side. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online December 2021). pillionn.² Brit. /ˈpɪljən/, /ˈpɪlɪən/, U.S. /ˈpɪljən/ Forms: late Middle English pylnys (plural), late Middle English 1700s pilion, 1500s pelyon, 1500s pinior (apparently transmission error), 1500s pullion, 1500s pyllen, 1500s pyllyon, 1500s–1600s pillen, 1500s– pillion, 1600s pillian, 1600s pillyon, 1600s pylion; Scottish pre-1700 pilȝan, pre-1700 pilȝane, pre-1700 pilȝeane, pre-1700 pilȝon, pre-1700 pilihon, pre-1700 pilleane, pre-1700 pilleone, pre-1700 1700s– pillion, pre-1700 1800s pullion, 1700s peilion; also Irish English (Wexford) 1800s pilleen. See also pilgate n. Origin: Probably a borrowing from Irish. Etymon: Irish pillín. Etymology: Probably < Irish pillín < peall animal skin, rug, pallet (Early Irish pell ; < classical Latin pellis pell n.¹). With use in Scotland compare (with different diminutive suffix) Scottish Gaelic pillean. Compare also Welsh pilyn (1547). 1. A type of saddle, spec. a light saddle used by women. Also: a pad or cushion attached behind a saddle, on which a second person may ride, or to which luggage may be fastened. Cf. mail pillion n. at mail n.² Compounds 3. Now chiefly historical or archaic. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > saddle > types of saddle mail-saddle1360 trotter-saddle1381 panel1393 loadsaddle1397 packsaddle1398 limber-saddle1480 pillion1480 side-saddle1493 steel saddle1503 pilgate1511 mail pillowc1532 stock-saddle1537 pad1556 sunk1568 trunk-saddle1569 soda1586 mail pillion1586 running saddle1596 Scotch saddle1596 postilion saddle1621 pad-saddle1622 portmanteau-saddle1681 watering saddle1681 cart-saddle1692 demi-pique1695 crook-saddle1700 saddle pad1750 recado1825 aparejo1844 mountain saddle1849 somerset1851 pilch1863 cowboy saddle1880 sawbuck (pack)saddle1881 western saddle1883 cross-saddle1897 centre-fire1921 McClellan1940 poley1957 1480 Wardrobe Accts. Edward IV in N. H. Nicolas Privy Purse Expenses Elizabeth of York (1830) 163 Delyvered for to make off a pilion for the right high and right noble Princesse Lady Margarete. a1500 Gloss. John of Garland in T. Wright Vocabularies (1857) 123 Pulvillos, pylnys. 1503 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1900) II. 214 Item, for v elne claith of gold to be ane pilȝane to the Quene, quhen hir aun wes brint in Dalketh. 1526 in G. J. Piccope Lancs. & Cheshire Wills (1857) I. 13 To Elizabeth my doghtour my pullion of wolsted. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 254/1 Pyllyon for a woman to ryde on, hovsse à femme. a1630 F. Moryson in Shakespeare's Europe (1903) ii. v. 235 The Irish..vse no sadles, but either long narrow pillions bumbasted, or bare boardes of that fashion. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory 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. 1743 H. Bracken Farriery Improved (ed. 3) II. i. 28 The Pillion cannot sit justly upon the Spine. 1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield I. x. 97 Next the straps of my wife's pillion broke down. 1820 W. Irving Legend Sleepy Hollow in Sketch Bk. vi. 101 Some of the damsels..mounted on pillions behind their favourite swains. 1867 S. Smiles Huguenots Eng. & Ireland x. 243 De Bostaquet rode first, with his sister behind him on a pillion. 1901 R. de B. Trotter Galloway Gossip in N. Philip Penguin Bk. Sc. Folktales (1995) 388 It wus the fashion than for the women tae ride on the horse ahint the man, on a pillion. 1956 P. O'Brian Golden Ocean ii. 37 He does not care for a pillion. 1997 T. Pynchon Mason & Dixon 210 They decided to ride South, to view Stonehenge by moonlight,—she close and snug upon the Pillion. 2. A seat or flat pad located behind the saddle of a motorcycle (occasionally a bicycle) on which a second person may ride, or luggage may be carried. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicle propelled by feet > [noun] > cycle > parts and equipment of cycles > other parts of cycles saddle1819 saddle pin1836 rest1855 pillion1878 Arab spring1880 carrier1885 coaster1895 bicycle basket1896 pacemaker1896 steering lock1897 headset1898 flapper-seat1916 stand1918 kick-stand1947 sissy bar1959 stabilizers1960 society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > motorcycle > [noun] > parts of carrier1911 pillion1911 stand1918 drivetrain1938 kick-stand1947 twist grip1954 sissy bar1959 peg1965 hardtail1971 tank bag1974 top box1976 cockpit1993 1878 Design & Work 4 215/1 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. 1883 Cent. Mag. May 54/2 The faculty on the part of young men on bicycles of carrying their sweethearts behind them on a pillion. 1911 Motor Cycle 27 Apr. 481/1 The pillion or tandem seat is likely to become increasingly popular. 1954 J. Betjeman Few Late Chrysanthemums 74 And country girls with lips and nails vermilion Wait, nylon-legged, to straddle on the pillion. 1991 J. Kirkup Poet could not but be Gay (BNC) 180 When we went for a spin on your motor bike, with me like a ravished flapper on the pillion. Phrases to go (also ride, sit) pillion: to travel on a pillion, esp. on a motorcycle. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > motorcycling > [verb (intransitive)] > ride on pillion to go (also ride, sit) pillion1852 1852 W. M. Thackeray Hist. Henry Esmond III. iii. iii. 95 You'll..be no happier with a coronet on your coach..than riding pillion with Lubin to market. 1895 Pall Mall Mag. Mar. 510 Roy Branton, who rode pillion, had an opportunity of studying his pilot's pretty hair. 1926 T. E. Lawrence Seven Pillars (subscribers' ed.) xlv. 236 I sat him, pillion, on the camel's rump; then stirred her up and mounted. 1973 J. Wainwright Pride of Pigs 142 I got rid of my scooter, and started going pillion with Lance. 1992 ‘B. Vine’ King Solomon's Carpet (BNC) 38 Tom had never before ridden pillion on a motorbike. Compounds C1. † pillion mail n. Obsolete ΚΠ 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian iv, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. IV. 87 That trunk is mine, and that there band-box, and that pillion mail, and those seven bundles, and the paper bag. pillion passenger n. ΚΠ 1918 Times 1 Oct. 11/1 (advt.) High powered machines—especially those used for heavy side-car or pillion passenger work. 1993 J. Cooke Law of Tort (BNC) 91 The plaintiff was a pillion passenger on a motor bike driven by the defendant. pillion ride n. ΚΠ 1928 Helena (Montana) Independent 11 Oct. 3/5 A pillion ride of 1,500 miles has been accomplished by a Johannesburg girl. 2004 Sunday Times (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 2 May 14 People who didn't have motorcycle licences had to settle for a pillion ride. pillion rider n. ΚΠ 1893 Iowa City Daily Citizen 29 Jan. His labors alone could not make good pillion riders. 2003 Times (Nexis) 7 Oct. 2 The 26-year-old son of a leading Loyalist Volunteer Force paramilitary survived being shot in the head by a pillion rider on a motorcycle. pillion riding n. ΚΠ 1890 Lima (Ohio) Daily Times 14 Nov. 3/4 The incipient craze for ‘pillion riding’. 1995 J. Miller & M. Stacey Driving Instructor's Handbk. (ed. 8) v. 146 Driving Licence Endorsements..Unlawful pillion riding. pillion seat n. ΚΠ 1647 A. Eyre Diary 17 Mar. in C. Jackson et al. Yorks. Diaries (1877) 17 He promised to ryde with his wife to Derby, and wished me to bring him a pillion seate to cary her on. 1674 S. Fell Househ. Acct. Bk. 22 May (1920) 72 To m^o Rec^d of her more for a pillion seate, I sold her of Mothe^rs. 1878 W. Dickinson Gloss. Words & Phrases Cumberland (ed. 2) Pillion seat, a seat to fix behind the saddle for a female to ride on. Out of use since about 1830. 1992 R. Moulton & P. Lloyd Kites (BNC) 21 Peter Powell has flown trains of his kites..from a rear-facing pillion seat on a speeding motorcycle. C2. pillion cloth n. now historical a cloth placed under a pillion on a horse, usually to protect clothing from wear. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > saddle > parts of saddle saddle-boweOE arsonc1300 saddle skirt1361 saddle-tree1364 skirtc1400 saddle panel1465 stock-tree1470 stock1497 pommela1500 tree1535 pillion cloth1540 port1548 saddle stock1548 pilch1552 bolster1591 cantle1591 shank-pilliona1599 pillowc1600 pad1604 crutch1607 sivet1607 saddle crutcha1614 saddle eaves1663 saddle tore1681 burr1688 head1688 narve1688 saddle seat1688 sidebar1688 torea1694 quarter1735 bands of a saddle1753 witherband1764 withers1764 peak1775 pillion-stick1784 boot-housing1792 saddle flap1798 saddle lap1803 fork1833 flap1849 horn1849 skirting1852 hunting-horn1854 head-plate1855 saddle horn1856 cantle bar1859 leaping-horn1859 straining1871 stirrup-bar1875 straining-leather1875 spring tree1877 leaping-head1881 officer-tree1894 monkey1911 monkey-strap1915 thigh roll1963 straining-web- 1540 Inventory in State Papers Henry VIII (P.R.O.: SP 1/161) f. 59 A pillen clothe gardyd with velvet. 1648 in J. H. Trumbull Public Rec. Colony of Connecticut (1850) I. 508 1 sidesaddle and pillion cloath. 1774 T. Davies Lives E. Ashmole & W. Lilly 76 Having lost a pillion-cloth, a very new one. 1929 J. de F. Shelton Salt-box House iv. 34 The dark blue pillion-cloth protected her dress from the horse's flank. † pillion gelding n. Obsolete rare (perhaps) a gelded horse saddled with a pillion. ΚΠ 1539 in Hist. MSS Comm.: MSS Duke of Rutland (1905) IV. 289 in Parl. Papers (Cd. 2606) LXIII. 301 To Poppes man for bryngyng of on pyllen gyldyng..for my Lady, xx d. † pillion-stick n. Obsolete a stick fastened in a pillion to hold luggage in place. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > saddle > parts of saddle saddle-boweOE arsonc1300 saddle skirt1361 saddle-tree1364 skirtc1400 saddle panel1465 stock-tree1470 stock1497 pommela1500 tree1535 pillion cloth1540 port1548 saddle stock1548 pilch1552 bolster1591 cantle1591 shank-pilliona1599 pillowc1600 pad1604 crutch1607 sivet1607 saddle crutcha1614 saddle eaves1663 saddle tore1681 burr1688 head1688 narve1688 saddle seat1688 sidebar1688 torea1694 quarter1735 bands of a saddle1753 witherband1764 withers1764 peak1775 pillion-stick1784 boot-housing1792 saddle flap1798 saddle lap1803 fork1833 flap1849 horn1849 skirting1852 hunting-horn1854 head-plate1855 saddle horn1856 cantle bar1859 leaping-horn1859 straining1871 stirrup-bar1875 straining-leather1875 spring tree1877 leaping-head1881 officer-tree1894 monkey1911 monkey-strap1915 thigh roll1963 straining-web- 1784 J. 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. pillion stone n. now historical a stone from which to climb on to a pillion on a horse. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > [noun] > mounting a horse > mounting-block mounting place1490 riding block1570 block1614 mounting block1659 horsing stone1661 horsing-block1662 upping-stocka1697 joss-block1706 horse-block1713 mounting stone1794 upping-block1796 upping-stone1809 horse-steps1828 leaping-on-stone1837 stepping-stone1837 stirrup-stone1838 pillion stone1907 1907 Manch. Guardian 20 July 7/7 On one side of the porch is a horsing or pillion stone. 1996 Patriot Ledger (Quincy, Mass.) (Nexis) 28 Nov. 28 t The 1767 pillion stone outside the police-fire station. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2022). pillionn.³ Brit. /ˈpɪljən/, /ˈpɪlɪən/, U.S. /ˈpɪljən/ Origin: Of uncertain origin. Etymology: Origin uncertain; apparently related to prill n.⁴ and prillion n.; perhaps (in spite of the chronology) originally an error for prillion n. Metallurgy. English regional (Cornwall). Now rare. Tin which remains in or is recovered from the slag after an ore has been smelted. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > base metal > [noun] > tin > types of white tin1562 mine tin1602 grain tin1668 phosphor tin1668 pillion1778 grey tin1804 prillion1821 1778 W. Pryce Mineralogia Cornubiensis 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. 1778 W. Pryce Mineralogia Cornubiensis v. 325 (Gloss.) Pillion, the Tin which remains in the scoria or slags after it is first smelted, which must be separated and remelted. 1882 F. W. P. Jago Anc. Lang. & Dial. Cornwall 234 Pillion [repeating W. Pryce, p. 325]. 1974 P. Wright Lang. Brit. Industry 200 Pillion, tin which remains in the slag after the first melting. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). pillionv. Brit. /ˈpɪljən/, /ˈpɪlɪən/, U.S. /ˈpɪljən/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: pillion n.² Etymology: < pillion n.² Compare earlier pillioned adj.² 1. transitive. To carry (a person) on a pillion. Usually in passive. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [verb (transitive)] > saddle > place on pillion pillion1858 1858 W. M. Thackeray Virginians I. xx. 152 He..thought of his Maria and his horse with youthful satisfaction, and how sweet it would be to have one pillioned on the other. 1926 W. S. Sparrow Bk. Brit. Etching ii. iii. 132 A lean and pathetic husband has a very fat wife pillioned behind him. 2002 Hobart Mercury (Nexis) 12 Aug. I fail to see the romantic possibilities in pillioning Miss Right round and round the Saigon CBD. 2. transitive. To equip (a horse) with a pillion. Only in passive. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [verb (transitive)] > saddle saddleOE panel1530 to saddle up1587 empannel1620 resaddle1787 side-saddle1795 pillion1929 1929 J. de F. Shelton Salt-box House iv. 33 Thaddeus's best pacing-mare being duly saddled and pillioned. Derivatives ˈpillioning n. the action of riding on a pillion. ΚΠ 1935 T. E. Lawrence Let. 31 Jan. (1938) 845 Pretty awful pillioning with a suitcase and masterpiece in one's arms! 1999 Waikato Times (Hamilton, N.Z.) (Nexis) 19 Mar. 31 The high-set pillion seat with attached backrest is ideal for pillioning. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹a1387n.²1480n.³1778v.1858
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