Impalement

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The act of impaling, or putting to death by driving a stake through the body.
  • noun. The act of inclosing with stakes, or paling.
  • noun. A paling or hedge; an inclosure; hence, a floral inclosure or flower-cup.
  • noun. A piece of ground inclosed by pales; an inclosed space.
  • noun. In heraldry, the marshaling side by side of two escutcheons combined in one. See impale
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The act of impaling, or the state of being impaled.
  • noun. An inclosing by stakes or pales, or the space so inclosed.
  • noun. That which hedges in; inclosure.
  • noun. The division of a shield palewise, or by a vertical line, esp. for the purpose of putting side by side the arms of husband and wife. See Impale, 3.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The act of torturing or executing someone by impaling them on a sharp stake.
  • noun. The joining of two coats of arms on one shield.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the act of piercing with a sharpened stake as a form of punishment or torture
  • Word Usage
    "The public "impalement" of adulterers, especially Presidential ones, is a crucifixion in which others suffer for the very sin that we guilt-ridden masses yearn to commit."
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