Riddle(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.
Riddle(n.) A board having a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it.
Riddle(n.) Something proposed to be solved by guessing or conjecture; a puzzling question; an ambiguous proposition; an enigma; hence, anything ambiguous or puzzling.
Riddle(v. i.) To speak ambiguously or enigmatically.
Riddle(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.
Riddle(v. t.) To perforate so as to make like a riddle; to make many holes in; as, a house riddled with shot.
Riddle(v. t.) To explain; to solve; to unriddle.
Riddled(imp. & p. p.) of Riddle
Riddling(a.) Speaking in a riddle or riddles; containing a riddle.
Riddling(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Riddle
Words within riddles