Definition of riddle

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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..

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Griddle :: Griddle (n.) An iron plate or pan used for cooking cakes.
Girdle :: Girdle (n.) A griddle.
Slapjack :: Slapjack (n.) A flat batter cake cooked on a griddle; a flapjack; a griddlecake.
Logogriph :: Logogriph (n.) A sort of riddle in which it is required to discover a chosen word from various combinations of its letters, or of some of its letters, which form other words; -- thus, to discover the chosen word chatter form cat, hat, rat, hate, rate, etc..
Riddle :: Riddle (v. i.) To speak ambiguously or enigmatically.
Riddler :: Riddler (n.) One who speaks in, or propounds, riddles..
Undo :: Undo (v. t.) To loose; to open; to take to piece; to unfasten; to untie; hence, to unravel; to solve; as, to undo a knot; to undo a puzzling question; to undo a riddle..
Buckwheat :: Buckwheat (n.) The triangular seed used, when ground, for griddle cakes, etc..
Expound :: Expound (v. t.) To lay open the meaning of; to explain; to clear of obscurity; to interpret; as, to expound a text of Scripture, a law, a word, a meaning, or a riddle..
Riddle :: Riddle (n.) A board having a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it..
Rebus :: Rebus (n.) A mode of expressing words and phrases by pictures of objects whose names resemble those words, or the syllables of which they are composed; enigmatical representation of words by figures; hence, a peculiar form of riddle made up of such representations..
Guess :: Guess (v. t.) To solve by a correct conjecture; to conjecture rightly; as, he who guesses the riddle shall have the ring; he has guessed my designs..
Riddled :: Riddled (imp. & p. p.) of Riddl.
Ruddle :: Ruddle (n.) A riddle or sieve.
Areed :: Areed (v. t.) To tell, declare, explain, or interpret; to divine; to guess; as, to aread a riddle or a dream..
Quiz :: Quiz (n.) A riddle or obscure question; an enigma; a ridiculous hoax.
Cake :: Cake (n.) A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake; as buckwheat cakes.
Triddler :: Triddler (n.) The jacksnipe.
Prinpriddle :: Prinpriddle (n.) The long-tailed titmouse.
Screen :: Screen (n.) A long, coarse riddle or sieve, sometimes a revolving perforated cylinder, used to separate the coarser from the finer parts, as of coal, sand, gravel, and the like..
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