to fasten, stick, or fix upon a sharpened stake or the like.

to pierce with a sharpened stake thrust up through the body, as for torture or punishment.

to fix upon, or pierce through with, anything pointed.

to make helpless as if pierced through.

Archaic . to enclose with or as if with pales or stakes; fence in; hem in.

Heraldry .

to marshal (two coats of arms, as the family arms of a husband and wife) on an escutcheon party per pale.

(of a coat of arms) to be combined with (another coat of arms) in this way.

verb

lance , perforate , pierce , prick , punch , puncture , run through , skewer , skiver , spear , spike , stick , transfix , gore , spit , stab