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What is an impalement?

What is an impalement? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The act of torturing or executing someone by impaling them on a sharp stake.
  2. (heraldry) The joining of two coats of arms on one shield.
  3. An enclosed space.
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The methods of marshalling are dimidiation, impalement, quartering, superimposition.
Yet he offers a whole chapter on the Walachian prince, including a long description of impalement methods, complete with illustrations.
Some are said to have survived their impalement as much as forty-eight hours.
A more satisfactory ending for the character might have been impalement from giant stalactite.
Since the marriage of Alroy, there had never been such a merry morn as the day of his impalement.
Though impalement is a form of capital punishment, probably the girl's blood was expected to fertilise the earth.

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