échappé, n.m., -e, n.f., a person who has made his or her escape, a runaway; a horse of mongrel or cross breed. Un — de galères; an escaped convict. Un — des petites-maisons; a madman, a crack-brained fellow.
échappée, n.f., prank; sally, snatch; (arch.) rounding off; space for carriages to turn in. Faire quelque chose par —s; to do a thing by snatches, by fits and starts. — de vue; vista. — de lumière; (paint.) accidental light. À l’—; by stealth.
échappement, n.m., (horl.) escape, escapement. — à recul; recoil-escapement. — à repos; dead-beat escapement. — à ancre; anchor or lever escapement. — de la vapeur; (mec.) puff.
échapper, v.n., to escape, to make one’s escape, to get away, to get out of, to avoid, to shun, to fly, to break out. Laisser —; to overlook, to pass over, to let pass. Faire — un prisonnier; to favor a prisoner’s escape. — au naufrage; to escape shipwreck. — du naufrage; to escape from the wreck. Cela m’est échappé; that has slipped my memory. Cela m’a échappé; it escaped me (i.e. I did not know of it), or I said it inadvertently. Laisser — l’occasion; to let slip an opportunity. Laisser — un mot; to drop a word. [When échapper means to avoid, to be preserved, it requires the preposition à: On échappe à l’orage. When it means to steal away, to leave a place, it requires the preposition de: On échappe de prison.]
échapper, v.a., to escape, to avoid; (man.) to put to the greatest speed. L’— belle; to have a narrow escape. — le danger; to avoid danger. — la côte; to escape stranding.
s’échapper, v.r., to get loose, to get away, to escape, to steal away, to slip out; to vanish, to disappear; to forget one’s self. Il s’est échappé jusqu’à dire; he forgot himself so far as to say.
écharbot, n.m., (bot.) water-chestnut, water-caltrop.
écharde, n.f., prick, prickle (of a thistle); splinter; (piscat.) stickleback.
échardonnage, n.m., clearing of thistles.
échardonner, v.a., to clear of thistles.