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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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A board having a row of pins, set zigzag, between which
wire is drawn to straighten it. |
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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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To perforate so as to make like a riddle; to make many
holes in; as, a house riddled with shot. |
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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 explain; to solve; to unriddle. |
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To speak ambiguously or enigmatically. |
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