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Definition of Riddle
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Riddle
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. A board having a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it. To separate, as grain from the chaff, with a riddle; to pass through a riddle; as, riddle wheat; to riddle coal or gravel. To perforate so as to make like a riddle; to make many holes in; as, a house riddled with shot. Something proposed to be solved by guessing or conjecture; a puzzling question; an ambiguous proposition; an enigma; hence, anything ambiguous or puzzling. To explain; to solve; to unriddle. To speak ambiguously or enigmatically. Related Definitions:
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Riddle Quotations
Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. Winston Churchill It is of first-class importance that our answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx should be in step with how we conduct our civilisation, and this should in turn be in step with the actual workings of living systems. Gregory Bateson Of course, China is a key to the North Korea if we're going to solve that riddle, but they could also be helpful on Iraq, which is why it's important that we maintain a constructive dialogue with China. Frank Carlucci A major difficulty is that the answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx is partly a product of the answers that we already have given to the riddle in its various forms. Gregory Bateson A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer. Karl Kraus |
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Riddle Translations
riddle in Dutch is puzzel, raadsel riddle in Finnish is arvoitus |
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