impaling

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of impale

noun

1. The act of something being impaled.

   “In inspecting numerous shrike impalings I find that where abundant impaling situations, such as barbed-wire fences, are at hand, the unfinished meals of shrikes are distributed along such fences at considerable intervals.”

   “I had seen many decapitations and skinnings, impalings and crucifixions […]”