Etymology : Middle English redels, ridel, from Old English r[AE]delse opinion, conjecture, riddle; akin to Old English r[AE]dan to interpret; more at READ
Pronunciation : 'ri-d
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Function : noun
Date : before 12th century
1. puzzle, question or statement presenting a problem to be solved; enigma, mystery; sieve, screen used for sifting. solve, interpret; swell up, inflate; perforate, pierce; detonate, explode. riddleride \ride\ , v. i. [imp. rode (rōd) (rid [r&ibreve;d], archaic); p. p. ridden (rid, archaic); p. pr. & vb. n. riding .] [as. rīdan; akin to lg. riden, d. rijden, g. reiten, ohg. rītan, icel. rī?a, sw. rida, dan. ride; cf. l. raeda a carriage, which is from a celtic word. cf. road.].
2. to be carried on the back of an animal, as a horse. to-morrow, when ye riden by the way. let your master ride on before, and do you gallop after him.
3. to be borne in a carriage; as, to ride in a coach, in a car, and the like. see:
synonym, below. the richest inhabitants exhibited their wealth, not by riding in gilden carriages, but by walking the streets with trains of servants.
4. to be borne or in a fluid; to float; to lie. men once walked where ships at anchor ride.
5. to be supported in motion; to rest. strong as the exletree on which heaven rides. on whose foolish honesty my practices ride easy!.
6. to manage a horse, as an equestrian. he rode, he fenced, he moved with graceful ease.
7. to support a rider, as a horse; to move under the saddle; as, a horse rides easy or hard, slow or fast.
8. 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.
9. A board having a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it.
10. To separate, as grain from the chaff, with a riddle; to pass through a riddle; as, riddle wheat; to riddle coal or gravel.
11. To perforate so as to make like a riddle; to make many holes in; as, a house riddled with shot.
12. Something proposed to be solved by guessing or conjecture; a puzzling question; an ambiguous proposition; an enigma; hence, anything ambiguous or puzzling.
13. To explain; to solve; to unriddle.
14. To speak ambiguously or enigmatically. a coarse sieve a difficult problem set a difficult problem or riddle; "riddle me a riddle" explain a riddle speak in riddles pierce many times; "The bullets riddled his body" separate with a riddle, as grain from chaff.
15. 1. A riddle is a puzzle or joke in which you ask a question that seems to be nonsense but which has a clever or amusing answer.
16. You can describe something as a riddle if people have been trying to understand or explain it but have not been able to. Scientists claimed yesterday to have solved the riddle of the birth of the Universe. = mystery.
17. If someone riddles something with bullets or bullet holes, they fire a lot of bullets into it. Unknown attackers riddled two homes with gunfire. Deliberately enigmatic or ambiguous question requiring a thoughtful and often witty answer. The riddle is a form of guessing game that has been a part of the folklore of most cultures from ancient times. Western scholars generally recognize two main kinds of riddle: the descriptive riddle, usually describing an animal, person, plant, or object in an intentionally enigmatic manner (thus an egg is "a little white house without door or window"); and the shrewd or witty question. A classical Greek example of the latter type is "What is the strongest of all things?" "Love: iron is strong, but the blacksmith is stronger, and love can subdue the blacksmith.".
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