Meanings
verbimpalm (third-person singular simple present impalms, present participle impalming, simple past and past participle impalmed)
present singular third person impalms · participle present impalming · participle past impalmed · past impalmed
- transitiveTo grasp or hold in the hand.
And the hands of a bride and of a bridegroom, noble to noble, were impalmed by Don John Conmee.
1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 10: Wandering Rocks]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 2141 more example
Nature herself (whose grasp of time and place / Deals out duration and impalms all space) […].
1807, Joel Barlow, The Columbiad
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