1818 33 425 Why do they..resort to gags, dungeons, halters, axes, and quartering-knives?
1897 ‘O. Rhoscomyl’ (U.K. ed.) 321 He did not see the ghastly work of quartering knives and choppers.
1922 J. Joyce ii. xii. [Cyclops] 296 On a handsome mahogany table near him were neatly arranged the quartering knife, the various finely tempered disembowelling appliances.