noun

• (botany) A leafless stalk growing directly out of a root, bulb, or subterranean structure.
• (architecture) The shaft of a column.
• (architecture) The apophyge of a shaft.

verb

• (transitive, archaic) 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."

noun

• (archaic) Escape.
  "I spake of most disastrous chances, […] Of hairbreadth scapes in the imminent, deadly breach."
• (obsolete) A means of escape; evasion.
• (obsolete) A freak; a slip; a fault; an escapade.
  "Not pardoning so much as the scapes of error and ignorance."
• (obsolete) A loose act of vice or lewdness.
  "though I am not bookish, yyet I can read waiting-gentlewoman in the 'scape"