drawing and quartering | Definition & Facts
Drawing and quartering, part of the grisly penalty anciently ordained in England (1283) for the crime of treason. Drawing involved the punished being tied to a horse and dragged to the gallows, and quartering was the process of separating the body into four parts.
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