Crossword-Solution: EMPALEMENT 10 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 16

After a short debate he was condemned to die on the following day, by the slow torture of empalement.

When the stamina and petal fall, the empalement resembles a fungus, and nearly in shape a Scot's bonnet.

Penalties were varied somewhat--the bastinado, imprisonment, additional days of work for the corvée, and, for grave offences, forced labour in the Ethiopian mines, the loss of nose and ears, and finally, death by strangulation, by beheading,* by empalement, and at the stake.

She wrought a canopy, which was placed in the presence-chamber at Whitehall, consisting of an empalement of the arms of France and Scotland, embroidered under an imperial crown.

During the continuance of that series of exciting scenes--which included the killing of one person by empalement upon a bull, the mutilation of another by the claws of a grizzly bear, and the destruction of the bear itself, by a volley of revolvers--these interesting damsels never allowed the lights of their cigarritos to become extinguished; but calmly smoked on, as tranquil and unconcerned, as if they had been simply assisting at the ceremony of a "fandango!" Volume One, Chapter XXVI.