Empalers

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. A person or entity that uses a sharp object to pierce or impale someone or something
2. An individual who carries out the act of penetrating bodily structures with a stake or similar device
3. Someone engaged in a violent act of subsuming through a pointed instrument, often resulting in serious injury or death

Etymology: "Empalers" is simply the plural of "empaler," so the plural form is all that needs explaining here. The noun it belongs to describes a person who impales someone or something on a stake or similar pointed device. Because the singular carries the whole meaning, the plural just means more than one such person, as in a group of executioners or a historical company of torturers working together.

Synonyms: piercers, skewers, impalers, stabbers, puncturers