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Picador

noun
1.
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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... the crowd still sways and surges, Ere the applauding shouts have ceas'd, See, the second bull emerges— 'Tis the famed Cordovan beast,— By the picador ungoaded, Scathless of the chulo's dart. Slay him, and with guerdon loaded, And with honours crown'd depart. No vain brutish strife he wages, Never uselessly he rages, And his cunning, as he ages, With ...
— Poems • Adam Lindsay Gordon


Words linked to "Picador" :   horseman, bullfighter, toreador, horseback rider, equestrian


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