quartering

• The animal seemed to be shell-shocked The milk wagon had been turned quartering, and upset, and a senseless figure had sprawled out on the pavement. —  106 - Peril In The North
• You mean more brutal than quartering which is slowly disenbowling a person untill they beg for death under any condition. —  Propeller Most Popular Stories
• Despite the lack of birds, she's never stopped hunting -- quartering into the wind, lowering her head to puzzle out old scent, then breaking off and casting out again.
• If a striking contrast is wanted for the medullary rays of the quartering, apply a golden-oak stain first. —  Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part I
• The horse could thus move from one side of the road to the other, quartering, as it is called, at the will of the driver, whose constant attention was necessarily employed to regulate a piece of machinery contrived, but not well contrived, for that purpose I cannot help the reader to understand the foregoing description. —  Evolution, Old ; New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin

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