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PILLION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pillion mean? 

PILLION (noun)
  The noun PILLION has 1 sense:

1. a seat behind the rider of a horse or motorbike etc.play

  Familiarity information: PILLION used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PILLION (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("pillion" is a kind of...):

seat (any support where you can sit (especially the part of a chair or bench etc. on which you sit))


 Context examples 


My master, pursuant to the advice of his friend, carried me in a box the next market-day to the neighbouring town, and took along with him his little daughter, my nurse, upon a pillion behind him.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)



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