Search Result for "draw and quarter":
Wordnet 3.0

VERB (1)

1. pull (a person) apart with four horses tied to his extremities, so as to execute him;
- Example: "in the old days, people were drawn and quartered for certain crimes"
[syn: draw, quarter, draw and quarter]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

draw and quarter v 1: pull (a person) apart with four horses tied to his extremities, so as to execute him; "in the old days, people were drawn and quartered for certain crimes" [syn: draw, quarter, draw and quarter]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

25 Moby Thesaurus words for "draw and quarter": defoliate, denude, dismember, flay, grill, impale, keelhaul, lacerate, maim, mangle, mutilate, peel, pick to pieces, picket, pull apart, rack, shred, skin, strip, take apart, tar and feather, tear apart, tear to pieces, tear to tatters, torture