Scapus, Instrumentum textorium. Lucr. Scapus. A knappe wherein seedes are contained, as a poppie hath. The greene skin of a filbird, an acorue: a walnut or suth like. A beane stalke.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
scapus, i, m. [root skap-; Gr. skh/ptw, to prop, skh=ptron; Doric, ska=pos; cf.: scipio, scamnum, scopus; Engl. shaft], a shaft, stem, stalk, trunk, etc. I. In gen., Varr. R. R. 1, 31, 5; Col. 9, 4, 4; Plin. 18, 10, 21, 95; Sen. Ep. 86, 17.—II. In partic. A.A cylinder on which sheets of paper or leaves of papyrus were rolled, Plin. 13, 12, 23, 77.— B.A sheet of paper: aliquid papyri illinere scapo, Varr. ap. Non. 168, 14.—C. A weaver's yarn-beam, Lucr. 5, 1353.—D.The shaft of a column, Vitr. 3, 2 sq.—E.The shank of a candlestick, Plin. 34, 3, 6, 11.—F.The post or newel of a circular staircase, Vitr. 9, 2 fin.—G.The main stile of a door on which it hinged, Vitr. 4, 6.—H.The beam of a balance, Vitr. 10, 8; Fest. s. v. agina, p. 10 Müll.; and s. v. librile, p. 116 ib.—K. = membrum virile, Aug. Civ. Dei, 7, 24 fin.; Veg. 5, 14, 17.