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Impale


IMPA'LE, verb transitive [Latin in and palus, a pole, a stake.]

1. To fix on a stake; to put to death by fixing on an upright sharp stake. [See Empale.]

2. To inclose with stakes, posts or palisades.

3. In heraldry, to join two coats of arms pale-wise.