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noun

Tickler n.

One who, or that which, tickles.

Something puzzling or difficult.

A book containing a memorandum of notes and debts arranged in the order of their maturity. (Com. Cant, U. S.)

A prong used by coopers to extract bungs from casks. (Eng.)

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Tickler" Quotes from Famous Books

... Long ago, says this key-tickler, when he was a youth, he was hired by Koussevitzky, then also a young fellow, to play the piano scores of ...

— The World's Great Men of Music - Story-Lives of Master Musicians • Harriette Brower

... given to the Foxhound in the comparatively short period of forty or fifty years, it is no wonder that individual hounds became very celebrated in almost every part of the country. Mr. Pelham's Rockwood Tickler and Bumper were names well known in Yorkshire, and Lord Ludlow's Powerful and Growler were talked of both in Lincolnshire and Warwickshire. From the first, indeed, it appeared that certain hounds were ...

— Dogs and All About Them • Robert Leighton

... his devotion to rational Liberty; for the better propagation whereof he usually carried a brace of revolving pistols in his coat pocket, with seven barrels a-piece. He also carried, amongst other trinkets, a sword-stick, which he called his 'Tickler.' and a great knife, which (for he was a man of a pleasant turn of humour) he called 'Ripper,' in allusion to its usefulness as a means of ventilating the stomach of any adversary in a close contest. He had used these weapons with distinguished ...

— Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit • Charles Dickens

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