scape
verb
- [slang] to scapegoat, unjustly blame (and punish) someone
noun
- long non-woody, leafless segment between two leaf-bearing regions of a plant
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈskeɪp/
noun
Etymology: Probably imitative.
- The cry of the snipe when flushed.
- The snipe itself.
verb
Etymology: From Middle English scapen (whence also atscapen and ofscapen (“to escape”)), formed by aphesis from escapen, ascapen (“to escape”). Compare also Old French scapper, a variant of Old French eschaper, formed via similar process. Doublet of escape and scarper.
- 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: […]”