Details of word RIDDLE

Definition of riddle

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.

Word "riddle" contains 6 letters : D D E I L R

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