What is "tiddler"

Usage examples of "tiddler".

Portuguese Alvarez Pereira, a Joao-cluss frigate and the tiddler of the squadron, was making harder work of it.

The number of these relative tiddlers in Earth-crossing orbits is almost certainly in the hundreds of thousands and possibly in the millions, and they are nearly impossible to track.

When she had just finished telling him about her own childhood forays into the countryside with a gang of other kids to catch tiddlers and pick fruit, how could he tell her that such simple pleasures might never be able to be enjoyed by their own children?

Children in buggies were pushed up the hill to Hempstead Heath to picnic in the yellowing grass or catch tiddlers in Whitestone Pond.

If they were going to fish for tiddlers, she surmised, they were not likely to concern themselves with her own activities.

She also came upon an acquaintance who, in company with two small children, was crouching down for the purpose of holding these by the slack of their overcoats while they put little fishing-nets into the water for tiddlers which, if there at all, were not apparent to the naked eye.

When she had just finished telling him about her own childhood forays into the countryside with a gang of other kids to catch tiddlers and pick fruit, how could he tell her that such simple pleasures might never be able to be enjoyed by their own children?

Approved weaponry-for the Treaty did not permit heavy weapons in the colony - were projectile rifles, metal-headed spears, compound bows and arrows, and any sort of club (though bludgeoning a snake to death, even a tiddler, was extremely dangerous.

Then a three-metre tiddler attempted a fast break around the wheels of the thresher.

With a guilty start, the younger man wound the sack around his saddlehorn and kicked his horse over to where Mrs Boncyk and two farmhands were fighting off tiddlers who were slithering around the pen looking for any weakness.

The reptiles ranged in size from two and threeyear1d tiddlers of three to five meters in length to immense females.

Todd shot a defensive charge under the Mommy's tail: pain and noise alarmed it enough to divert its path so that it swerved into the tiddler.