| 1. | to fasten, stick, or fix upon a sharpened stake or the like. |
| 2. | to pierce with a sharpened stake thrust up through the body, as for torture or punishment. |
| 3. | to fix upon, or pierce through with, anything pointed. |
| 4. | to make helpless as if pierced through. |
| 5. | Archaic. to enclose with or as if with pales or stakes; fence in; hem in. |
| 6. | Heraldry.
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