Scape vs Scaps - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between scape and scaps

is that scape is a leafless stalk growing directly out of a root while scaps is plural of lang=en.

is to escape.

From (etyl) .

(en noun)

(botany) a leafless stalk growing directly out of a root

the lowest part of an insect's antenna

(architecture) the shaft of a column

(architecture) The apophyge of a shaft.

Formed by aphesis from escape . (etystub)

(scap)

(archaic) to escape

*17th century , John Donne, Elegy IX: The Autumnal :

*: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 .

(en noun)

(archaic) escape

* Shakespeare

I spake of most disastrous chances, Of hairbreadth scapes in the imminent, deadly breach.

(obsolete) A means of escape; evasion.

(Donne)

(obsolete) A freak; a slip; a fault; an escapade.

* Milton

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

(obsolete) A loose act of vice or lewdness.

(Shakespeare)

(Webster 1913)

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