| Riddle (riddle) |
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| n. | (?) |
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| Rid"dle |
| [OE. ridil, AS.
hridder; akin to G. reiter, L. cribrum, and to
Gr. (?)(?)(?) to distinguish, separate, and G. rein clean. See
Crisis, Certain.] |
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.
A board having a row of pins, set zigzag,
between which wire is drawn to straighten it.
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| Riddle (riddle) |
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| v. t. | |
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| Rid"dle |
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To separate, as grain
from the chaff, with a riddle] to pass through a riddle; as,
riddle wheat; to riddle coal or gravel.
To perforate so as to make like a riddle;
to make many holes in; as, a house riddled with shot.
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Something proposed
to be solved by guessing or conjecture; a puzzling question; an
ambiguous proposition; an enigma; hence, anything ambiguous or
puzzling.
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| Riddle (riddle) |
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| v. t. | |
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| Rid"dle |
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To explain; to
solve; to unriddle.
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| Riddle (riddle) |
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| v. i. | |
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| Rid"dle |
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To speak ambiguously
or enigmatically.
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