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The meaning of the word "Quartered" in English


Quartered imp. & p. p. : of Quartter

Example:
I Quartered a chick, what to do with leftovers?

Taxonomy
punishment, hanged, drawn and quartered, execution, hanged, sentence, treason, body, king, crime, regicide, traitors, brother, high treason, England, London, proper sentence, capital punishment, offences.

Defination from the web:
quartered was the penalty for high treason in medieval England, and remained on the statute book but seldom used in the ... Metacomet, leader of the Narragansett, was himself beheaded and quartered, but not hanged, after his death. ... 

synonyms
  (noun) one-fourth
  (noun) fourth
  (noun) fourth part
  (noun) twenty-five percent
  (noun) quartern
  (noun) stern
  (noun) after part
  (noun) poop
  (noun) tail
  (noun) academic session
  (noun) academic term
  (noun) avoirdupois unit
  (noun) back
  (noun) British capacity unit
  (noun) city district
  (noun) clemency
  (noun) coin
  (noun) common fraction
  (noun) Imperial capacity unit
  (noun) individual
  (noun) mercifulness
  (noun) mercy
  (noun) mortal
  (noun) orientation
  (noun) period
  (noun) period of play
  (noun) period of time
  (noun) person
  (noun) piece of leather
  (noun) play
  (noun) playing period
  (noun) rear
  (noun) school term
  (noun) session
  (noun) simple fraction
  (noun) somebody
  (noun) someone
  (noun) soul
  (noun) time period
  (noun) time unit
  (noun) unit of time
  (verb) billet
  (verb) canton
  (verb) draw
  (verb) draw and quarter
  (verb) accommodate
  (verb) divide
  (verb) fraction
  (verb) kill
  (verb) lodge
  (verb) section
  (verb) segment


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