n. | 1. | 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. |
| 2. | A board having a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it. |
v. t. | 1. | To separate, as grain from the chaff, with a riddle; to pass through a riddle; as, riddle wheat; to riddle coal or gravel. |
| 2. | To perforate so as to make like a riddle; to make many holes in; as, a house riddled with shot. |
n. | 1. | Something proposed to be solved by guessing or conjecture; a puzzling question; an ambiguous proposition; an enigma; hence, anything ambiguous or puzzling. |
v. t. | 1. | To explain; to solve; to unriddle. |
v. i. | 1. | To speak ambiguously or enigmatically. |