1) Baffler 2) Bandleader Nelson 3) Brain stumper 4) Brain-teaser 5) Brain-teaser and coarse sieve 6) Certain brainteaser 7) Conundrum 8) Conundrum of kitchen 9) Enigma 10) Explain a riddle 11) Fill full of holes 12) Fill with holes 13) Gardening tool 14) Large meshed sieve 15) Lost question about snowmen
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1) Brainteaser 2) Cleverlybafflingquery 3) Conundrum 4) Enigma 5) Fill 6) Imbue 7) Mystery 8) Perforate 9) Poser 10) Problem 11) Puzzle 12) Sieve 13) Sift 14) Teaser
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- a difficult problem
- a coarse sieve (as for gravel)
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A riddle is a statement or question or phrase having a double or veiled meaning, put forth as a puzzle to be solved. Riddles are of two types: enigmas, which are problems generally expressed in metaphorical or allegorical language that require ingenuity and careful thinking for their solution, and conundra, which are questions relying for their ef...
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[tool] A riddle is a large sieve used to separate soil or compost particles, or for separating soil from vegetables. ==Etymology== English `riddle` is from Middle English ridelle `coarse sieve,` from late Old English hriddel `sieve,` altered by dissimilation from Old English hridder `sieve` A riddle may be square, rectangular or circular in...
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• (n.) Something proposed to be solved by guessing or conjecture; a puzzling question; an ambiguous proposition; an enigma; hence, anything ambiguous or puzzling. • (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. • (v. t.) To ...
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deliberately enigmatic or ambiguous question requiring a thoughtful and often witty answer. The riddle is a form of guessing game that has been a ... [2 related articles]
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Verbal puzzle or question that offers clues rather than direct aids to solving it, and often involves unlikely comparisons. Riddle poems were common in Old English poetry. In ancient literature,...
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A universal form of literature in which a puzzling question or a conundrum is presented to the reade
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Rid'dle intransitive verb To speak ambiguously or enigmatically. 'Lysander
riddels very prettily.'
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Rid'dle noun [ Middle English
ridil , Anglo-Saxon
hridder ; akin to German
reiter , Latin
cribrum , and to Greek ......... to distinguish, separate, and German
rein clean. See
Crisis ,
Certain .]
1. A sieve with coarse meshes, usually of wire,...
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Rid'dle transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Riddled ; present participle & verbal noun Riddling .] 1. To separate, as grain from the chaff, with a riddle; to pass through a riddle; as, riddle wheat; to riddle
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puzzling person or thingÂ
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A riddle is a question designed to test ingenuity or give amusement.
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The USS Riddle was an American Bostwick Class escort destroyer of 1240 tons displacement launched in 1943. The USS Riddle had a top speed of 19 knots and carried a complement of 220. She was armed with three 3 inch dual-purpose guns; two 40 mm anti-aircraft guns; four 20 mm anti-aircraft guns; depth charge throwers and three 21 inch torpedo tubes i...
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Riddle is Dorset slang for a coarse sieve.
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[
n] - a difficult problem 2. [n] - a coarse sieve (as for gravel) 3. [v] - separate with a riddle, as grain from chaff 4. [v] - pierce many times 5. [v] - speak in riddles 6. [v] - explain a riddle 7. [v] - set a riddle
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a question or statement, sometimes in rhyme, which forms a puzzle to be solved by the reader/listener.
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conundrum noun a difficult problem
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Verbal puzzle or question that offers clues rather than direct aids to solving it, and often involves unlikely comparisons. Riddle poems were common in Old English poetry. In ancient literature, finding the answer to a riddle could be a matter of life and death. Oedipus, for example, became the ruler of the ancient Greek city of Thebes by solving t...
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