(n.) 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.
Example Sentences:
(1) There was the time he met Steve McQueen in Cornwall in 1970 and joined him as a pillion passenger on a spontaneous four-day off-road motorbike trip, staying in "Devonshire country inns", during which bonding experience McQueen revealed to him, as he had to no one else, his violence toward his first wife, the criminality of his childhood and his premonitions of death (a story which, 40 years on, forms the basis of Steve McQueen: Living on the Edge , recently lucratively serialised in the Sunday Times ).
(2) The pillion passenger got off and repeatedly stabbed Appleton in front of startled children.
(3) Of the fatalities 30 were operators of the motorcycle, 11 pillion passengers and 8 counterparts.
(4) They involved cyclists (38.3%), pillion passengers on cycles (1.9%), pedestrians (29.3%), motorcar drivers (7.8%), motorcar passengers (3.6%), passengers entering or leaving a vehicle (7.3%), mopedists (6.8%), motorcyclists (3.5%), and "others" (1.6%).
(5) These data are consistent with the concept previously proposed (Pillion, D.J., and Czech, M.P.
(6) I suspect a lot of people will write Kim Kardashian’s Hollywood off as a vacuous game about a vacuous person, using a cynical business model that preys on stupid players who wouldn’t know a “proper game” if it snogged them on the pillion.
(7) The results advocate that the law should restrict alcohol consumption by pillion passengers as well as by the motorcycle operator.
(8) In simultaneous and identical attacks, two motorcycles pulled alongside two cars in different parts of Tehran, the pillion passenger clamped a magnetic bomb to the door next to their intended victim and sped away.
(9) Riding pillion on their Aprilla scooters, their faces covered with silver and black crash helmets, the two teenagers screech to a halt outside an electronics shop.
(10) Straight-backed women carry goods to trade on their heads as they have always done, children shout with laughter under a water tap, men talk on street corners and motorcycles with paying pillion passengers weave between the honking cars.
(11) The pillion passenger stuck a charge to the door next to the chemist, which detonated as the motorcyclist drove off.
(12) Fifty-two per cent could ride a motorcycle, a further 13% intended to learn, 22% had driven on-road, and 60% had ridden as pillion passengers on-road.
(13) At one point, we manage to hitch a pillion ride on a motorbike ridden by another player, generating some excellent driving-and-shooting action – thoroughly satisfying until the driver took us way off course.
(14) The motorcycle with the pillion passenger, the magnetic bomb and the lifeless body left in the car.
(15) Furthermore a limitation in the right to carry a pillion passenger should be considered, and the operator of the motorcycle carrying a pillion passenger should be held responsible for the passenger wearing a helmet.
(16) In all cases where a pillion passenger was killed, the operator of the motorcycle had a BAC greater than 0.08%.
(17) Chibok lay at the end of the dust road, and over the next 10 days, she rode a motorbike pillion across its 10 wards, trying to persuade one family in each district to accept a scholarship for their traumatised daughter.
(18) Significantly more males than females were riders (P less than 0.001) and had ridden as pillion passengers (P less than 0.05).
(19) "They come into the City from north London at night down the backways and alleys to avoid CCTV cameras, they operate between 12 and 2am and ride pillion," said Detective Chief Inspector Richard Jack, of the City of London police.
(20) 63.6% (21 cases) were due to road traffic accidents of whom 33% (11 cases) were motorcyclists or pillion riders and 30.3% (10 cases) were drivers or passengers of four wheel vehicles such as cars and vans.
Rider
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, rides.
(n.) Formerly, an agent who went out with samples of goods to obtain orders; a commercial traveler.
(n.) One who breaks or manages a horse.
(n.) An addition or amendment to a manuscript or other document, which is attached on a separate piece of paper; in legislative practice, an additional clause annexed to a bill while in course of passage; something extra or burdensome that is imposed.
(n.) A problem of more than usual difficulty added to another on an examination paper.
(n.) A Dutch gold coin having the figure of a man on horseback stamped upon it.
(n.) Rock material in a vein of ore, dividing it.
(n.) An interior rib occasionally fixed in a ship's hold, reaching from the keelson to the beams of the lower deck, to strengthen her frame.
(n.) The second tier of casks in a vessel's hold.
(n.) A small forked weight which straddles the beam of a balance, along which it can be moved in the manner of the weight on a steelyard.
(n.) A robber.
Example Sentences:
(1) An untiring advocate of the joys and merits of his adopted home county, Bradbury figured Norfolk as a place of writing parsons, farmer-writers and sensitive poets: John Skelton, Rider Haggard, John Middleton Murry, William Cowper, George MacBeth, George Szirtes.
(2) Yogi Breisner, performance manager for the British eventing team, said: "It is a real shame that it has been called off, especially in an Olympic year when a lot of the riders and horses would have been on show.
(3) Or perhaps it was just because I was a little kid and more interested in them Weetabix skinheads, Roland Rat and Knight Rider.
(4) "A lot of my mates were let down by Easy Rider, they thought it was going to be a lot better – but it didn't disappoint me at all."
(5) But it made sure there weren’t surprises like this one: when Natalie Burg, of Michigan, was newly married, she discovered that adding a rider for maternity coverage would more than double the cost of her health insurance, from $120 a month to more than $300.
(6) Barra’s main rivals in the single-speed category were Willo and a rider nicknamed Neu York, representing the Gorilla Smash Squad.
(7) Fifty-seven percent of riders were wearing helmets during the mishap.
(8) I can't make myself into a big, powerful rider who can put out 300 watts per hour.
(9) – A 16km (10-mile) subway extension to take riders from central Rio to the Olympic Park in the western suburb of Barra da Tijuca is likely to be finished just a few weeks before the games open.
(10) The Surf's Up Surf School has been operating from the beach for 15 years and has an experienced team of instructors (including a former New Zealand national-level coach, Kelly O'Toole) who are prepared to work with everyone from complete beginners to elite riders.
(11) The Tasmanian Motorcycle Rider Training scheme is assessed in terms of its value in reducing the accident risk.
(12) "I just wanted to go out there and enjoy it," said Dujardin, who is only the second British rider to win double gold at one Games, following the eventer Richard Meade 40 years ago.
(13) 11.47pm GMT New England Here's an expert view of the Revs from one of our weekly experts , MB Carradine , of the Midnight Riders : No one projected the Revolution would finish 3rd in the East, and rightfully so.
(14) The UCI should also pay more attention to medical issues in cycling and when Therapeutic Use Exemptions should be granted Words of warning Sanctioned riders should be used ‘as an educational tool’ to inform their peers about the dangers of doping through interviews, appearances, lectures and recorded messages pointing out the impact of doping on their lives, ‘the social stigma, financial impact, health effects and self-esteem issues’ Voice of the union The UCI should ‘facilitate the creation of a strong riders’ union … to give riders a collective voice particularly on issues of ownership, revenue sharing, the racing calendar and anti-doping.
(15) And if you're going to film me in HD my agent says I need a rider in my contract for a makeup artist."
(16) Lance Armstrong held the meanest grudges in cycling, in effect ruining the career of Christophe Bassons after the French rider dared to talk publicly about doping.
(17) Honeychile Rider is even more unworldly, depicted in Dr No as part intuitive animal, part innocent child.
(18) It’s not about promoting it to lycra-clad riders.
(19) But there was disappointment on Monday for Lee Pearson, the dressage rider who had nine gold medals in his locker coming into the Games and was one of the most recognisable faces of the build-up.
(20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Lakota youth riders of the “Horse Nation” gallop bareback at Standing Rock.