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   im·pale

   /imˈpāl/

   verb

   • 1. pierce or transfix with a sharp instrument: "his head was impaled on a pike and exhibited for all to see"
   • 2. display (a coat of arms) side by side with another on the same shield, separated by a vertical line: "the impaled arms of her husband and her father"
   • ▪ (of a coat of arms) adjoin (another coat of arms) on the same shield: "the arms of the order are impaling those of the sovereign"

   Word Origin mid 16th century (in the sense ‘enclose with stakes or pales’): from French empaler or medieval Latin impalare, from Latin in- ‘in’ + palus ‘a stake’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. impalement noun
   • 2. impaler noun

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