Empalement

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Em`pale´ment

1.A fencing, inclosing, or fortifying with stakes.

2.A putting to death by thrusting a sharpened stake through the body.

3.(Her.) Same as Impalement.

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Related to Empalement: Wallachia, Vlad the Impaler

EMPALEMENT. A punishment in which a sharp polo was forced up the fundament. Encyc. Lond. h.t.

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