tickle

tickle nThere is a word common in names on the coasts of Newfoundland and Labrador to which I must advert. It is the word _tickle_, used to denote a narrow passage of some length, usually between an island and the mainland ... sometimes large enough to afford shelter for vessels and sometimes so small as to be navigable only by boats. On the east coast of Newfoundla land there are six or eight such places..and the coast-pilo note es over a dozen such places on the Labrador coast. We have other names formed from them, as Tickle Point or Tickle Bay. In two or three instances in Nova Scotia or New Brunswick we have such a place known sometimes as a _tickle_, but commonly as a _tittle_, which I deem a corruption of it. [derived from an analogous feature of the coast of Portugal, Santa Tekla and applied by Portuguese fishermen].PRINTED ITEM DNE SupG.M. Story July 1959[From this, it looks as if P. is reporting map usage only; appar. he never saw one, it in speech. WK]Used I and SupUsed INot usedThere is an arrow connecting the second part of the cited quotation to another section bellow