Word Meaning

riddle definition and meaning

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.

Crossword clues for riddle

- A poser
- Brain-teaser
- Clever conundrum
- Conundrum
- Enigma
- Large meshed sieve
- Mystery pepper with slugs
- Poor Witticism
- Puzzle, conundrum
- Tricky question
- Witticism