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pillions

pillions is the plural of pillion.

pillions is the third-person singular simple present indicative of pillion.

Meaning of pillion

Noun

pillion (plural pillions)

  1. A pad behind the saddle of a horse for a second rider.
    • 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...1861, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter XI, in Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC
  2. A similar second saddle on a bicycle or motorcycle for a passenger.
    • 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
  3. The person riding in the pillion.
    Synonyms:
    pillionist
  4. The cushion of a saddle.

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Questions about pillions

What is pillions the plural of?
Pillions is the plural of pillion.

Words near pillions in the dictionary

  1. pillion
  2. pillioned
  3. pillioning
  4. pillionist
  5. pillionists
  6. pillions
  7. pillionwise
  8. pilliwinkes
  9. pilliwinks
  10. pillmaker
  11. pillmakers

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