What's a question or problem that requires a bit of thought before you answer? It's a riddle, of course. The verb riddle can mean to speak in a puzzling fashion, though that use is not very common.
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.
Noun
a coarse sieve (as for gravel)
Noun
a difficult problem
Verb
set a difficult problem or riddle; "riddle me a riddle"
Verb
explain a riddle
Verb
speak in riddles
Verb
pierce many times; "The bullets riddled his body"
Verb
separate with a riddle, as grain from chaff
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.
n.
A board having a row of pins, set zigzag, between which
wire is drawn to straighten it.
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. t.
To perforate so as to make like a riddle; to make many
holes in; as, a house riddled with shot.
n.
Something proposed to be solved by guessing or conjecture;
a puzzling question; an ambiguous proposition; an enigma; hence,
anything ambiguous or puzzling.
v. t.
To explain; to solve; to unriddle.
v. i.
To speak ambiguously or enigmatically.
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To wring from me, and tell to them, my secret, That solved the riddle which I had proposed.
'T was a strange riddle of a lady.
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Riddle me this, and guess him if you can.
Riddle
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.
To separate, as grain from the chaff, with a riddle; to pass through a riddle;
Something proposed to be solved by guessing or conjecture; a puzzling question; an ambiguous proposition; an enigma; hence, anything ambiguous or puzzling.
To explain; to solve; to unriddle.
To speak ambiguously or enigmatically.
Usage Examples
Cause and effect, the riddle of all history, is a particular devil in financial history and never more so than today, where entire classes of security are collapsing not on public exchanges and stock-tickers but because there are no markets to establish prices this side of nothing.
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