riddles
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Definitions
noun
- A verbal puzzle, mystery, or other problem of an intellectual nature.“Here's a riddle: It's black, and white, and red all over. What is it?”
- An ancient verbal, poetic, or literary form, in which, rather than a rhyme scheme, there are parallel opposing expressions with a hidden meaning.
verb
- To speak ambiguously or enigmatically.
- To solve, answer, or explicate a riddle or question.“Riddle me this.”
noun
- 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 with a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it.
verb
- To put something through a riddle or sieve, to sieve, to sift.“You have to riddle the gravel before you lay it on the road.”
- To fill with holes like a riddle.“The shots from his gun began to riddle the targets.”
- To fill or spread throughout; to pervade.“Your argument is riddled with errors.”
noun
- A curtain; bed-curtain
- One of the pair of curtains enclosing an altar on the north and south
verb
- To plait
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