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Riddle (2)
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(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.
(2):
(v. t.) To perforate so as to make like a riddle; to make many holes in; as, a house riddled with shot.
(3):
(n.) A board having a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it.
(4):
(n.) Something proposed to be solved by guessing or conjecture; a puzzling question; an ambiguous proposition; an enigma; hence, anything ambiguous or puzzling.
(5):
(v. t.) To explain; to solve; to unriddle.
(6):
(v. i.) To speak ambiguously or enigmatically.
(7):
(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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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Riddle (2)'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/r/riddle-2.html. 1828.
