Obs. rare. [dim. (?) of TICK sb.1: see -EL2.] = TICK sb.1 1.
1577. B. Googe, Heresbach’s Husb. (1586), 143. If they [sheep] be lowsie, or full of tickels, they vse to beate the rootes of Maple, and seething them in water, and opening the wooll with their fingers, they powre the licour.
1741. Compl. Fam.-Piece, III. 492. To destroy Ticks or Tickels in Sheep.
