RIDDLE
\ɹˈɪdə͡l], \ɹˈɪdəl], \ɹ_ˈɪ_d_əl]\
Definitions of RIDDLE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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a difficult problem
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a coarse sieve (as for gravel)
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explain a riddle
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speak in riddles
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pierce many times; "The bullets riddled his body"
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set a difficult problem or riddle; "riddle me a riddle"
By Princeton University
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a difficult problem
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a coarse sieve (as for gravel)
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set a riddle
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explain a riddle
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speak in riddles
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pierce many times; "The bullets riddled his body"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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.
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A board having a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it.
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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.
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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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To explain; to solve; to unriddle.
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To speak ambiguously or enigmatically.
By Oddity Software
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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.
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A board having a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it.
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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.
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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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To explain; to solve; to unriddle.
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To speak ambiguously or enigmatically.
By Noah Webster.
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A puzzling question; enigma; mystery; a coarse sieve.
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To explain; solve; to sift through a coarse sieve; to pierce with holes; as, the ship was riddled by shot.
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To speak with doubtful meaning, as in riddles.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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An obscure description of something which the hearer is asked to name: a puzzling question: an enigma.
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To make riddles: to speak obscurely.
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To solve, as a riddle.
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A large sieve for separating coarser materials from finer.
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To separate with a riddle, as grain from chaff: to make full of holes like a riddle, as with shot.
By Daniel Lyons
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An enigma; puzzle.
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To make a riddle; speak enigmatically.
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To sift with a riddle; pierce with many holes.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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n. [Anglo-Saxon] A sieve with coarse moshes for separating coarser materials from finer, as chaff from grain, gravel from sand, &c.
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n. [Anglo-Saxon] Something that is to be solved by conjecture; a puzzling question; an enigma;- any thing ambiguous or buzzing.
