Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Clepe \Clepe\, v. i.
   To make appeal; to cry out. [Obs.]

         Wandering in woe, and to the heavens on high Cleping
         for vengeance of this treachery.         --Mir. for
                                                  Mag.

Clepe \Clepe\ (kl[=e]p), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cleped}
   (kl[=e]p"[e^]d) or (kl[=e]pt); p. pr. & vb. n. {Cleping}. Cf.
   {Ycleped}.] [AS. clepan, cleopian, clipian, clypian, to cry,
   call.]
   To call, or name. [Obs.]

         That other son was cleped Cambalo.       --Chaucer.