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Definitioner
Substantiv
- A verbal puzzle, mystery, or other problem of an intellectual nature.
- 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 with a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it.
Verb
- To speak ambiguously or enigmatically.
- To put something through a riddle or sieve, to sieve, to sift.
- (transitive) To solve, answer, or explicate a riddle or question
- To fill with holes like a riddle.
- To fill or spread throughout; to pervade.
Exempel
- Here's a riddle: It's black, and white, and red all over. What is it?
- To wring from me, and tell to them, my secret, / That solved the riddle which I had proposed.
- Elbows almost touching they leaned at ease, idly reading the almost obliterated lines engraved there. ¶ understood it," she observed, lightly scornful. "What occult meaning has a sun-dial for the spooney? I'm sure I don't want to read riddles in a strange gentleman's optics."
- Riddle me this, meaning Answer the following question.
- You have to riddle the gravel before you lay it on the road.
- In its finest form – two years old or more – leaf mould can be riddled (sieved) and used, mixed 50/50 with sand, to make fine potting compost for seeds and cuttings.
- The machinegun fire began to riddle the poor Afghanis.
- Your argument is riddled with errors.
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