Impale

Chamber's Twientieth Century Dictionary · 1908 · p. 52

im-pāl′, v.t. to fence in with stakes: to shut in: to put to death by spitting on a stake.— n. Impale′ment , an enclosed space: ( her. ) the marshalling side by side of two escutcheons combined in one. [Fr. empaler —L. in , in, pal us , a stake.]