To drive a long, sharp object, like a harpoon or a spear, through someone's body so that they are attached to it. Often fatal. Attach the instrument to a wall for further amusement.
A way of Torture where a sharpen sick is stabbed through a person and that person is hoisted up or a blunt wooden pole or stake is shoved up someones rectum and the victim is hoisted up, painfully slow death. Made famous by Vlad the impaler.