- (n.) Something proposed to be solved by guessing or conjecture; a puzzling question; an ambiguous proposition; an enigma; hence, anything ambiguous or puzzling.
- (n.) A sieve with coarse meshes, usually of wire, for separating coarser materials from finer, as chaff from grain, cinders from ashes or gravel from sand.
- (v.t.) To perforate so as to make like a riddle; to make many holes in; as, a house riddled with shot.
- (n.) A board having a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it.
- (v.t.) To explain; to solve; to unriddle.
- (v.t.) To separate, as grain from the chaff, with a riddle; to pass through a riddle; as, riddle wheat; to riddle coal or gravel.
- (v.i.) To speak ambiguously or enigmatically.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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