DCHP-3

tittle

Maritimes
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n.

a narrow strait between an island and the mainland or, sometimes, between two islands.

See: tickle(def. 1)

Quotations

1896
In two or three instances in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick we have such a place known as a tickle, but commonly as a tittle, which I deem a corruption of it.