Definition of Riddles. Meaning of Riddles. Synonyms of Riddles

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Definition of Riddles

Riddle
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. 2. To perforate so as to make like a riddle; to make many holes in; as, a house riddled with shot.
Riddle
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. 2. A board having a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it.
Riddle
Riddle Rid"dle, v. t. To explain; to solve; to unriddle. Riddle me this, and guess him if you can. --Dryden.
Riddle
Riddle Rid"dle, v. i. To speak ambiguously or enigmatically. ``Lysander riddels very prettily.' --Shak.

Meaning of Riddles from wikipedia

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- whether they answer the riddles he proposes or not. Even though he is not obsessed with finding answers to most riddles, the Riddler does have an obsession...
- Pollack joke) have a considerable amount of joke riddles. Elephant joke Lightbulb joke Newspaper riddle "Why did the chicken cross the road?" Radio Yerevan...
- (German; "The World-riddles"), with the English version published under the title The Riddle of the Universe, 1901. The term "world riddle" concerns the nature...
- Hangleton, that stood in a thicket in a valley opposite the Riddle House. Like the Riddles, the Gaunts were also unpo****r with the local residents, with...
- contains improv based on the puzzles and riddles presented to the hosts. Each episode consists of multiple riddles and puzzles, but the number and length...
- Robert Arthur "Robin" Riddles, CBE, MIMechE, MinstLE (23 May 1892 – 18 June 1983) was a British locomotive design engineer. Riddles was born in 1892 in...
- typed several of his works, including the Riddles in Hinduism. According to Rattu, Ambedkar wrote Riddles in Hinduism between the first w**** of January...
- and their riddles." In Proverbs 30:15, in which sets of three or four objects are mentioned were likely originally in the form of riddles. In Ezekiel...
- The Exeter Book riddles are a fragmentary collection of verse riddles in Old English found in the later tenth-century anthology of Old English poetry...