To fence or fortify with stakes; to set a line of stakes or posts for defense. All that dwell near enemies empale villages, to save themselves from surprise.

To inclose; to surround. Round about her work she did empale, With a fair border wrought of sundry flowers./ .

To inclose; to shut in. Impenetrable, empal’d with circling fire.

To thrust a stake up the fundament, and thus put to death; to put to death by fixing on a stake; a punishment formerly practiced in Rome, and still used in Turkey.