Riddle /(rĭd"d'l)/

1. 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.
2. A board having a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it.

imp. & p. p. Riddled; p. pr. & vb. n. Riddling

1. To separate, as grain from the chaff, with a riddle; to pass through a riddle; as, riddle wheat; to riddle coal or gravel.
2. To perforate so as to make like a riddle; to make many holes in; as, a house riddled with shot.

1. Something proposed to be solved by guessing or conjecture; a puzzling question; an ambiguous proposition; an enigma; hence, anything ambiguous or puzzling.

   To wring from me, and tell to them, my secret, That solved the riddle which I had proposed.

   'T was a strange riddle of a lady.

1. To explain; to solve; to unriddle.

   Riddle me this, and guess him if you can.

1. To speak ambiguously or enigmatically.