See pillion in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"text": "A ferlie (fairy) he spied with his ee, And there he saw a lady bright, Come riding down by the Elldon tree\"— a lady who had \"fifty siller bells and nine\" on each lock of her horse's mane, and who pillioned Thomas the Rhymer, and took him, \"red blude to the knee,\" thorugh the mirk, mirk night, to the place where \"They saw neither sun nor moon.\"",
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"text": "I caught the train just after you went (it was a good idea, that pillion ride - though pretty awful pillioning with a suitcase and masterpiece in one's arms!) and dumped the m-p in London on Emery Walker, to be photographed half size and collotyped, 100 copies.",
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"ref": "2011, Al Culler, Motorcycle Travels and Travails:",
"text": "I met a Latvian lass who enjoyed pillioning, showed me her country and best spots - yes, the best way to enjoy a country!",
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"ref": "2018, Sue McDonagh, Summer at the Art Cafe, →ISBN:",
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"ref": "1764, Dennis Donovan, Jacob Andrews Woodward, The History of the Town of Lyndeborough, New Hampshire,1735-1905:",
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"ref": "1871, Paul Peppergrass, The Spaewife ; Or, The Queens̓ Secret: A Story of the Reign of Elizabeth:",
"text": "But ordher one iv yer men to pillion the horse in a jiffy, for onct we get hoult iv the money bags, we must be off, or Tom Riddle won't lave a bone in my body but he'll break into smithereens.",
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"ref": "1872, George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates, Temple Bar - Volume 34, page 407:",
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