Impale

Edmundo prepared to impale the vampire with a stake.

During the Big Scare, while everyone was afraid that the Exclusion Ultimatum meant the Martians wanted an interplanetary war, the Earth Governments would have been only too ready to hang, shoot, stab, gas, electrocute, freeze, burn, poison, impale and/or defenestrate the dastardly culprits responsible.

[T]he Tovvne is impailed about halfe a mile compaſſe.