Definitions
(architecture) upright consisting of the vertical part of a column
Word origin
From Latin scāpus, from Doric Greek σκᾶπος (skâpos). Doublet of native English shaft.
Used in a sentence
“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”
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Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Column shaft”5 letters
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