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