Found 3 items, similar to Riddle.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: riddle
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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: riddle
riddle
n 1: a difficult problem [syn:
conundrum,
enigma,
brain-teaser]
2: a coarse sieve (as for gravel)
v 1: pierce many times;
“The bullets riddled his body”
2: set a difficult problem or riddle;
“riddle me a riddle”
3: separate with a riddle, as grain from chaff [syn:
screen]
4: speak in riddles
5: explain a riddle
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Riddle
Riddle
\Rid"dle\, v. t.
To explain; to solve; to unriddle.
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Riddle me this, and guess him if you can. --Dryden.
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Riddle
\Rid"dle\, v. i.
To speak ambiguously or enigmatically.
“Lysander riddels
very prettily.” --Shak.
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Riddle
\Rid"dle\, n. [OE. ridil, AS. hridder; akin to G. reiter,
L. cribrum, and to Gr. ??? to distinguish, separate, and G.
rein clean. See
Crisis,
Certain.]
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.
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2. A board having a row of pins, set zigzag, between which
wire is drawn to straighten it.
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Riddle
\Rid"dle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Riddled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Riddling.]
1. To separate, as grain from the chaff, with a riddle; to
pass through a riddle; as, riddle wheat; to riddle coal or
gravel.
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2. To perforate so as to make like a riddle; to make many
holes in; as, a house riddled with shot.
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Riddle
\Rid"dle\, n. [For riddels, s being misunderstood as the
plural ending; OE. ridels, redels. AS. r?dels; akin to D.
raadsel, G. r["a]thsel; fr. AS. r?dan to counsel or advise,
also, to guess. [root]116. Cf.
Read.]
Something proposed to be solved by guessing or conjecture; a
puzzling question; an ambiguous proposition; an enigma;
hence, anything ambiguous or puzzling.
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To wring from me, and tell to them, my secret,
That solved the riddle which I had proposed. --Milton.
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'T was a strange riddle of a lady. --Hudibras.
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