单词 | quartering-block |
释义 | > as lemmasquartering-block quartering-block n. ΚΠ 1752 Coll. Scarce & Valuable Tracts 4th Ser. I. 155 With a very pale and dead Colour, went up the Ladder, and, after a Swing or two with a Halter, to the Quartering-block was drawn, and there quickly dispatched. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xii. 218 Those who were doomed to the gallows and the quartering block. 1960 Times 4 Feb. 13/4 The agonies of the torture chamber and the quartering block. 2006 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 30 Jan. 13 He was reputedly still alive when taken to the quartering block. < as lemmas |
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