quartering block

noun

A block on which the body of a condemned criminal was quartered.

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Meanings

nounquartering block (plural quartering blocks)

plural quartering blocks

  1. historicalA block on which the body of a condemned criminal was quartered.

    The week however passed away without any disclosure : the gallows and quartering block were ready at Tyburn : the sledge and axe were at the door of Newgate

    1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC
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