also: -<span class="searchmatch">scape</span> IPA(key): /ˈskeɪp/ Rhymes: -eɪp From Latin scāpus, from Doric Greek σκᾶπος (skâpos). Doublet of native English shaft. <span class="searchmatch">scape</span> (plural <span class="searchmatch">scapes</span>) (botany)...
<span class="searchmatch">scape</span>-wheel (plural <span class="searchmatch">scape</span>-wheels) (horology) The wheel in an escapement (as of a clock or a watch) into whose teeth the pallets play. Synonym: escape...
<span class="searchmatch">scape</span>-wheels plural of <span class="searchmatch">scape</span>-wheel...
<span class="searchmatch">scape</span>-birds plural of <span class="searchmatch">scape</span>-bird...
<span class="searchmatch">scape</span>-animals plural of <span class="searchmatch">scape</span>-animal...
Rhymes: -eɪps <span class="searchmatch">scapes</span> plural of <span class="searchmatch">scape</span> <span class="searchmatch">scapes</span> third-person singular simple present indicative of <span class="searchmatch">scape</span> Spaces, spaces...
<span class="searchmatch">scaping</span> present participle and gerund of <span class="searchmatch">scape</span> pacings, spacing...
See also: <span class="searchmatch">scape</span> Back-formation from landscape, the suffix representing Middle Dutch -schap (“the English suffix -ship, e.g. of friendship, kinship, ownership”)...
<span class="searchmatch">scaped</span> simple past and past participle of <span class="searchmatch">scape</span> decaps, spaced, PESCAD, SPACed...
From <span class="searchmatch">scape</span> + bird; modelled on scapegoat. <span class="searchmatch">scape</span>-bird (plural <span class="searchmatch">scape</span>-birds) A bird that has symbolically had human diseases and sins transferred to it and...