tittlebat

English

Noun

tittlebat (plural tittlebats)

1. (UK, dialect) The three-spined stickleback.
   • 1836, Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers, Chapman & Hall, Chapter 1, Page 1:

     “Speculations on the Source of the Hampstead Ponds, with Some Observations on the Theory of Tittlebats;”.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “tittlebat”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)