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Draw and quarter has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Verb

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Verb
1

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"

2

To execute a person by tying each limb to an animal and driving them in different directions.

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