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n. - 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 horse on which the picador is mounted is bought only to be killed.
  • "Not quite so," said I. "The lance of the picador is to keep the bull from goring the horse."
  • There was funding for a lance-wielding horseman - or 'picador' - but only on one of the two days.
  • 'That's not the point at all/the old picador said.
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