empalement

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empalement - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Empalement \Em*pale"ment\, n. [Cf. F. empalement, fr. empaler.
     See Empale.] [Written also impalement.]
     1. A fencing, inclosing, or fortifying with stakes.
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     2. A putting to death by thrusting a sharpened stake through
        the body.
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     3. (Her.) Same as Impalement.
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empalement - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

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