Clept vs Cleft - What's the difference?
clept | cleft |
(obsolete) (clepe)
English irregular simple past forms
English irregular past participles
An opening, fissure, or V-shaped indentation made by or as if by splitting.
A piece made by splitting.
A disease of horses; a crack on the band of the pastern.
(Webster 1913)
(cleave)
As verbs the difference between clept and cleft
is that clept is (obsolete) (clepe) while cleft is (cleave).As a noun cleft is
an opening, fissure, or v-shaped indentation made by or as if by splitting.clept
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Alternative forms
*cleped *yclept (participle only)Verb
(head)cleft
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Noun
(en noun)- a cleft of wood
