In Edmund Gilligan's novel, The Gaunt Woman, we find the term "tickle" used several times, obviously referring to some sort of geographical feature. We find that "in Newfoundland English it means a short, narrow strait," such as the Baccalieu Tickle pictured below.
"Patrick shut his eyes and listened to the sea, loud in the narrow tickle, louder off-shore."
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