scape

Meanings

1. A leafless stalk growing directly out of a root, bulb, or subterranean structure.
2. The basal segment of an insect's antenna (i.e. the part closest to the body).
3. The basal part, more specifically known as the oviscape, of the ovipositor of an insect.
4. The shaft of a column.
5. The apophyge of a shaft.

1. To escape (someone or something).

1. Escape.
2. A means of escape; evasion.
3. A freak; a slip; a fault; an escapade.
4. A loose act of vice or lewdness.

1. The cry of the snipe when flushed.
2. The snipe itself.

Etymology

From Latin scāpus, from Doric Greek σκᾶπος (skâpos). Doublet of native English shaft.