meaning of riddles

1. 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.
2.
A board having a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it.
3.
To separate, as grain from the chaff, with a riddle; to pass through a riddle; as, riddle wheat; to riddle coal or gravel.
4.
To perforate so as to make like a riddle; to make many holes in; as, a house riddled with shot.
5.
Something proposed to be solved by guessing or conjecture; a puzzling question; an ambiguous proposition; an enigma; hence, anything ambiguous or puzzling.
6.
To explain; to solve; to unriddle.
7.
To speak ambiguously or enigmatically.
8.
a coarse sieve as for gravel


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