Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A horseman in a bullfight who lances the bull's neck muscles so that it will tend to keep its head low for the later stages of the fight.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In bull-fighting, one of the horsemen armed with a lance who commence the combat in the arena by pricking the bull to madness with their weapons, but purposely avoid disabling him.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A horseman armed with a lance, who in a bullfight receives the first attack of the bull, and excites him by picking him without attempting to kill him.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun bullfighting A lancer mounted on horseback who assists a
matador .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the horseman who pricks the bull with a lance early in the bullfight to goad the bull and to make it keep its head low
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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"Not quite so," said I. "The lance of the picador is to keep the bull from goring the horse."
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While the picador is relatively safe, not so the horse, because the bull sometimes hooks a horn up under the blanket to endanger the unprotected underbelly.
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While the picador is relatively safe, not so the horse, because the bull sometimes hooks a horn up under the blanket to endanger the unprotected underbelly.
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"Not quite so," said I. "The lance of the picador is to keep the bull from goring the horse."
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The horse on which the picador is mounted is bought only to be killed.
Six Months in Mexico 1888
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There was funding for a lance-wielding horseman - or 'picador' - but only on one of the two days.
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There was funding for a lance-wielding horseman - or 'picador' - but only on one of the two days.
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There was funding for a lance-wielding horseman - or 'picador' - but only on one of the two days.
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The bull charged, and of course the horse knew nothing till the picador failed and the horse found himself impaled on the bull's horns from beneath.
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It lifted the horse clear into the air; and as the horse fell to its side on on the ground the picador landed on his feet and escaped, while the capadors lured the bull away.
sionnach commented on the word picador
phrase heard on the Monte hall show
October 13, 2007