impaling

Verb

impale (third-person singular simple present impales, present participle impaling, simple past and past participle impaled)

1. (transitive) To pierce (something) with any long, pointed object.

   Synonyms:

   fix, stake, stick, run through, transfix

2. (transitive) To place two coats of arms side by side on the same shield (often those of two spouses upon marriage).
3. (ambitransitive) To pierce with a pale; to put to death by fixing on a sharp stake.
4. (ambitransitive) To enclose or fence with stakes.
   • [T]he Tovvne is impailed about halfe a mile compaſſe.1624, John Smith, “The Present Estate of Nevv-Plimoth”, in Iohn [i.e., John] Smith, The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles: […], London: […] I[ohn] D[awson] and I[ohn]...

   Synonyms:

   pale, palisade, picket