scape

noun

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.
6. (archaic)Escape.

   “I spake of most disastrous chances, […] Of hairbreadth scapes in the imminent, deadly breach.”

7. (obsolete)A means of escape; evasion.
8. (obsolete)A freak; a slip; a fault; an escapade.

   “Not pardoning so much as the scapes of error and ignorance.”

9. (obsolete)A loose act of vice or lewdness.

   “though I am not bookish, yyet I can read waiting-gentlewoman in the 'scape”

10. The cry of the snipe when flushed.
11. The snipe itself.

verb

1. (archaic, transitive)To 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”