riddle
IPA: rˈɪdʌɫ
noun
- A verbal puzzle, mystery, or other problem of an intellectual nature.
- An ancient verbal, poetic, or literary form, in which, rather than a rhyme scheme, there are parallel opposing expressions with a hidden meaning.
- 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.
- (obsolete) A curtain; bedcurtain.
- (religious) One of the pair of curtains enclosing an altar on the north and south.
- A surname.
- A city in Douglas County, Oregon, United States.
verb
- To speak ambiguously or enigmatically.
- (transitive) To solve, answer, or explicate a riddle or question.
- To put something through a riddle or sieve; to sieve; to sift.
- To fill with holes like a riddle.
- To fill or spread throughout; to pervade.
- (transitive, obsolete) To plait.
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