D&Q

[Tindy]

http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a4_239.html
Here you say (with reasonable knowlege) that being D&Q’d is being dragged and hung. I disagree; it’s having ropes tied to the wrists and ankles and dragged in 4 different directions by horse. (Thus ripping the hapless body into quarters)

Care to check that out?

[Tenar]

Hate to jump on a new guest, Tindy, but perhaps you failed to read the fourth paragraph of Cecil’s answer?

How exactly the quartering was to be accomplished was not always specified, but on at least some occasions horses were hitched to each of the victim’s limbs and spurred in four directions. An assistant with a sword or cleaver was sometimes assigned to make a starter cut and ease the strain on the animals.