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1. (n.) picador
one of the mounted assistants to a matador, who opens a bullfight by jabbing the bull's shoulder muscles with a lance.
Etymology: (1790–1800; < Sp: lit., pricker =pic(ar) to prick (see
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) picador
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
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1. (noun) picador
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
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The Nuttall Encyclopedia |
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1. picador
a man mounted on horseback armed with a spear to incite the bull in a bull-fight.
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