They drove the sharpened pole ends into the ground around the edge of the tamped earth circle.

Then, inside for about six meters, we set up sharpened poles.

A sharpened pole wasn't fancy, but if it took down a cavalry horse or impaled a man, it was fancy enough.

The monastery was initially surrounded by a stockade of sharpened poles.

A palisade of sharpened poles lined the river's edge, and a number of floating docks extended out into the water.

At the outer stockade he paused to look and listen, then flicked the length of manila rope over the barrier of sharpened poles.

Nearby another Mong had been impaled on a sharpened pole.

In addition, the levelled hilltop areas were surrounded by palisades of sharpened poles.

More yet on the sharpened pole that Ingrid leaned on as a crutch, and fresh blood on the bandage at her thigh.

A single sharpened pole lanced out and impaled through her shoulder.