Correct me if I am wrong, as I know you will. I believe it means to have each extremity tied to a horse and pulled apart, in relation to hanged, drawn & quartered.
Hung, drawn and quartered means that first you get hung, but so at the end you're still alive, then they take out your insides and then they quarter you by tying your arms and legs to 4 horses which...
what does "drawn" mean That doesn't help me. I was looking for an answer to the kind of drawn for this sentence: "Her face was drawn." I'll keep looking but there wasn't really anything resembling...
The actual procedure was to be 'hanged, drawn and quartered' and was a punishment in mediaeval England and Ireland for English commoners and any Scots, Irish or Welsh found guilty of high treason,...
It means cut into four equal parts or billeted. It was also a particularly nasty form of executionThe actual procedure was to be 'hanged, drawn and quartered' and was a punishment in mediaeval...