/ˈskeɪp/
OriginFrom Latin scāpus, from Doric Greek σκᾶπος (skâpos). Doublet of native English shaft.
- A leafless stalk growing directly out of a root, bulb, or subterranean structure.
- The basal segment of an insect's antenna (i.e. the part closest to the body).
- The basal part, more specifically known as the oviscape, of the ovipositor of an insect.
- The shaft of a column.
- The apophyge of a shaft.
- archaicEscape.
“I spake of most disastrous chances, […] Of hairbreadth scapes in the imminent, deadly breach.”
- obsoleteA means of escape; evasion.
- obsoleteA freak; a slip; a fault; an escapade.
“Not pardoning so much as the scapes of error and ignorance.”
- obsoleteA loose act of vice or lewdness.
“though I am not bookish, yyet I can read waiting-gentlewoman in the 'scape”
- The cry of the snipe when flushed.
- The snipe itself.
- archaic, transitiveTo escape (someone or something).
“No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace / As I have seen in one autumnal face. / Young beauties force our love, and that's a rape, / This doth but counsel, yet you cannot scape.”
“He (to beguile the ſimple) makes no bone / To ſvvear by God (for he beleeues ther's none); / His Svvord's his Title; and vvho ſcapes the ſame, / Shall haue a Piſtol, or a Poyſonie dram: […]”
“Hee will provide you keyes, and locks, to spie, / And scape spies, to good ends”
Formsscapes(plural) · scapes(present, singular, third-person) · scaping(participle, present) · scaped(participle, past) · scaped(past)
Source: Wiktionary