squartato-quartered: meaning, definitions and translations

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What is squartato?squartato is quartered

What is quartered?

  • Dividere in quarti una bestia macellata: s. un bue.
    Divide into quarters a slaughtered beast: s. an ox.
  • (STOR). Sottoporre al supplizio dello squartamento.
    (STOR). Subject to the torture of quartering.
  • iperb. Trucidare: se mi capita fra le mani lo squarto!
    hyperb. Slaughter: if I happen to be in my hands the quarter!