(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.
(n.) A board having a row of pins, set zigzag, between which
wire is drawn to straighten it.
(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.
(v. t.) To perforate so as to make like a riddle; to make many
holes in; as, a house riddled with shot.
(n.) Something proposed to be solved by guessing or conjecture;
a puzzling question; an ambiguous proposition; an enigma; hence,
anything ambiguous or puzzling.
(v. t.) To explain; to solve; to unriddle.
(v. i.) To speak ambiguously or enigmatically.
