Home
Idioms
Top 1000 Words
Top 5000 Words


Example sentences for "ycleped"

Lexicographically close words:
yawp; yaws; ybody; yche; yclad; yclept; ydel; yder; ydle
  1. The thing of legs and arms, ycleped Frank, watched my outgoings from the hotel.

  2. Pleasant is even the yolk of the Cormorant--in the north of England ycleped the Scarth, and in the Lowlands of Scotland the Black Byuter.

  3. In one of the most active working bees we recognise a cadie, formerly in Auld Reekie ycleped "The Despatch," now retired to the Braes of Balquhidder, and breathing strongly the spirit of his youth.

  4. Wete ye not wher stondeth a litel toun, Which that ycleped is Bob up-and-doun, Under the blee in Canterbury way?

  5. Rhizotome, with the soft coat of a field tortoise, alias ycleped a mole, was making himself a velvet purse.

  6. By the by, the black who protected our baggage from the steam-boat was ycleped Oliver Cromwell.

  7. An unfortunate young person of Emanuel College, Cambridge, ycleped Hewson Clarke, has lately manifested the most rabid symptoms of confirmed Authorship.

  8. For chattles hadden they enough and rent, And eke their wives would it well assent, And elles certainly they were to blame, It is full fair to be ycleped madame, And for to go to vigils all before, And have a mantle royally upbore.

  9. Goodman, we were directed to your house for a night's entertainment or two, if you are the old rich yeoman ycleped Patrick Chisholm of Castle-Weary.

  10. Of all the joys and ecstacies of that celestial clime, ycleped the land of faery; were it not that one is here whose sex forbids it, and whose gentle nature from such a tale would shrink, as doth the flower before the nipping gale.

  11. This we descend for a matter of half a mile, passing across a heathery upland ycleped the Hill of the Unstrung-Bows, until we come to Tafarn Bwlch, a humble wayside alehouse some thousand feet or so above sea-level.


  12. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ycleped" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.