disimpale, v.
(dɪsɪmˈpeɪl)
[dis- 6.]
trans. To unfix from something pointed. Also fig.
| 1904 E. F. Benson Challoners iv. 73 The leg was caught only by the skin, and holding the animal in one hand he gently disimpaled it, where the iron teeth had clutched it. 1930 W. de la Mare Desert Islands 185 Though the tale-teller may well keep his reader on the sharpest of tenterhooks, he is bound to disimpale him in the end. |