picador:

(plural: ‘picadors or ‘picadores‘; pronunciation: the letters ‘pi’ rhyme with the word “pee”, and the letter ‘c’ is said with a ‘k’ sound as in “king” — for the right pronunciation, please click here)

a picador lancing the while the matador (standing) looks on

(in a bullfight game) a player on a horse back who pricks/jabs the bull in the neck or between the shoulders with a sharp lance early in the game to make the bull keep its head down and to make it become weak,

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In a Spanish bull fight, a picador is the first one to hurt the bull.

In the early years of the bullfight game, picadors were as popular as the matadors.