Picador

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  • 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.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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.
    • 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.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A lancer mounted on horseback who assists a matador.
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  • 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
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