impalement

impalement has 5 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 10.

Definitions

• n.. The act of impaling, or the state of being impaled.
• n.. An inclosing by stakes or pales, or the space so inclosed.
• n.. That which hedges in; inclosure.
• n.. 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.
• n.. the act of piercing with a sharpened stake as a form of punishment or torture