I cleep, you cleep, he cleeps

[Douglas G. Wilson]

  Another East Anglia word-list (1895 but based largely on much earlier
material) ...

http://tinyurl.com/252yrj6

(p. 40-41)

... shows not only "clepe [sides]" and "clip [sides]" but:

<<*Clating. To choose sides by measuring with the feet. Cf. 'cleated
shoes.'>>

-- Doug Wilson

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