Thesaurus: riddle

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1. 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.
2. n. A board having a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it.
3. 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.
4. v. t. To perforate so as to make like a riddle; to make many holes in; as, a house riddled with shot.
5. n. Something proposed to be solved by guessing or conjecture; a puzzling question; an ambiguous proposition; an enigma; hence, anything ambiguous or puzzling.
6. v. t. To explain; to solve; to unriddle.
7. v. i. To speak ambiguously or enigmatically.
8. n. a difficult problem
9. n. a coarse sieve (as for gravel)
10. v. pierce with many holes
11. v. set a difficult problem or riddle
12. v. separate with a riddle, as grain from chaff