| Summary: | tickle a TICKLE HARBOUR POINT (NTS Dildo) is a shift name from Tickle Harbour ("Blathwayt" c. 1630-40), "in the south corner of Tickle Bay, at the entrance of a salt water lake,. protected by a small islet and a reef of rocks. The entrance [-Tickle-] is only a cable wide and is not more than 4 feet deep at low water." 46 Cartwright defines tickle, which occurs frequently in Newfoundland both as generic and specific, as "A passage between the continent and an island, or between two islands, when it is of no great width." 1862 46 Imray, Sailing Directions 1873 PRINTED ITEM DNE-cit W.J.KIRWIN JAN 1972 JH JAN 1972 Used I and Sup Used I and Sup Used I tickle a, reach n, run n, tickles not all of text is cited in DNE
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