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tickler (iou)



tickler noun. E17.
[from TICKLE verb + -ER1.]
A person who tickles something or someone; spec. (colloq.) a pianist. E17.
A thing which tickles or is used for tickling (lit. & fig.), as (a) a feather brush; (b) a birch, rod, etc., used to beat a person; (c) a device by which a small quantity of petrol is let into the carburettor to aid the starting of an engine; (d) a memorandum; (e) (more fully tickler coil) an inductance coil in the anode circuit of a valve, giving positive feedback through another coil in the grid circuit. L17.
Comb.: tickler coil = sense 2(e) above.