transfix, impale, empale, spike
(verb) pierce with a sharp stake or point; “impale a shrimp on a skewer”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
empale (third-person singular simple present empales, present participle empaling, simple past and past participle empaled)
Obsolete form of impale.
(transitive) To make pale.
• G. Fletcher
Source: Wiktionary
Em*pale", v. t. Etym: [Pref. em- (L. in) + pale: cf. OF. empalir.]
Definition: To make pale. [Obs.] No bloodless malady empales their face. G. Fletcher.
Em*pale", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Empaled; p. pr. & vb. n. Empaling.] Etym: [OF. empaler to palisade, pierce, F. empaler to punish by empalement; pref. em- (L. in) + OF. & F. pal a pale, stake. See Pale a stake, and cf. Impale.] [Written also impale.]
1. To fence or fortify with stakes; to surround with a line of stakes for defense; to impale. All that dwell near enemies empale villages, to save themselves from surprise. Sir W. Raleigh.
2. To inclose; to surround. See Impale.
3. To put to death by thrusting a sharpened stake through the body.
4. (Her.)
Definition: Same as Impale.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 December 2024
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The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
