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

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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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Riddle

Rid"dle , n. [OE. ridil, AS. hridder; akin to G. reiter, L. cribrum, and to Gr. to distinguish, separate, and G. rein clean. See Crisis, Certain.] 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.

Riddle

Rid"dle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Riddled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Riddling .] 1. To separate, as grain from the chaff, with a riddle; to pass through a riddle; as, riddle wheat; to riddle coal or gravel. 2. To perforate so as to make like a riddle; to make many holes in; as, a house riddled with shot.

Riddle

Rid"dle, n. [For riddels, s being misunderstood as the plural ending; OE. ridels, redels. AS. rdels; akin to D. raadsel, G. r'84thsel; fr. AS. rdan to counsel or advise, also, to guess. &root;116. Cf. Read.] Something proposed to be solved by guessing or conjecture; a puzzling question; an ambiguous proposition; an enigma; hence, anything ambiguous or puzzling.

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.

Riddle

Rid"dle, v. t. To explain; to solve; to unriddle.

Riddle me this, and guess him if you can.

Riddle

Rid"dle, v. i. To speak ambiguously or enigmatically. "Lysander riddels very prettily." Shak.

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; as, riddle wheat; to riddle coal or gravel.

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.