Frank Dresser wrote:

"N8KDV" wrote in message
...


...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"

http://www.hyperdictionary.com/dicti...aw+and+quarter



Dictionaries differ:

http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionar...nd%20quartered

Perhaps some do... but when I look up 'draw and quarter' on the site you
provided I come up with the same result as I posted.

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Burr

N8KDV wrote:


Burr wrote:


GO BEARCATS wrote:

should be drawn, quartered,

How do you "drawn & Quarter" someone?


...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"

http://www.hyperdictionary.com/dicti...aw+and+quarter

ouch!


Brian

Dictionaries differ:

http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionar...nd%20quartered

nice dictionarie link Frank, now I have one. Never thought about having one on
the computer. :-)

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nice dictionarie

looks like I need it. Nah........time to go to bed. ;-)