buttress vs pillion

buttress

noun
  • A buttress-root. 

  • A brick or stone structure built against another structure to support it. 

  • Anything that supports or strengthens. 

  • Anything that serves to support something; a prop. 

  • A feature jutting prominently out from a mountain or rock. 

verb
  • To support something or someone by supplying evidence. 

  • To support something physically with, or as if with, a prop or buttress. 

pillion

noun
  • The cushion of a saddle. 

  • The person riding in the pillion. 

  • A similar second saddle on a motorcycle for a passenger. 

  • A pad behind the saddle of a horse for a second rider. 

adv
  • Riding behind the driving rider, as when positioned on the rump of a mount. 

verb
  • To ride on a pillion. 

  • To put a pillion on a horse. 

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