Southcote Lodge.
165. Meaning of "Stickle" and "Dray."
—In Wm. Browne's Pastoral, "The Squirrel Hunt," we read of—
"Patient anglers, standing all the day
Near to some shallow stickle, or deep bay."
The word stickle appears to me to be used here for a pool. Is it ever so used now, or has that meaning become obsolete? I do not find it in Richardson's Dictionary.
In the Lake District, in the Langdales, is Harrison's Stickle or Stickle Tarn, which I think confirms my view of the meaning.
"Whilst he from tree to tree, from spray to spray,
Gets to the wood, and hides him in his dray."