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quartering blocks

quartering blocks is the plural of quartering block.

Meaning of quartering block

Noun

quartering block (plural quartering blocks)

  1. (historical) A block on which the body of a condemned criminal was quartered.
    • The week however passed away without any disclosure : the gallows and quartering block were ready at Tyburn : the sledge and axe were at the door of Newgate1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC

Questions about quartering blocks

What is quartering blocks the plural of?
Quartering blocks is the plural of quartering block.

Words near quartering blocks in the dictionary

  1. quarterfolds
  2. quarterhorse
  3. quarterhorses
  4. quartering
  5. quartering block
  6. quartering blocks
  7. quarterings
  8. quarterite
  9. quarterites
  10. quarterization
  11. quarterize

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