quartering block

English

Noun

quartering block (plural quartering blocks)

(historical) A block on which the body of a condemned criminal was quartered.
- 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volumes (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
  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 Newgate

References

“quartering”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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