scape

Etymology 1

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

noun

1. (botany) 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. (architecture) The shaft of a column.
5. (architecture) The apophyge of a shaft.

Etymology 2

Formed by aphesis from escape.

verb

1. (archaic) to escape
   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. c. 1600, John Donne, Elegy IX: The Autumnal, in Poems (1633)

noun

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

Etymology 3

Probably imitative.

noun

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