Yclept (verb)
ee-klept
Past participle of clepe. Named.
First recorded before 1000; Middle English ycleped, Old English geclypod, past participle of clypian, cleopian “to name, call”; clepe
Example sentences
“I was down in the gorge, next to a rock yclept ‘needle rock’ when I saw the bird.”
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