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What does riddle mean?

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Noun
  1. A verbal puzzle, mystery, or other problem of an intellectual nature.
  2. An ancient verbal, poetic, or literary form, in which, rather than a rhyme scheme, there are parallel opposing expressions with a hidden meaning.
Verb
  1. To speak ambiguously or enigmatically.
  2. (transitive) To solve, answer, or explicate a riddle or question
Noun
  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 with a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it.
Verb
  1. To put something through a riddle or sieve, to sieve, to sift.
  2. To fill with holes like a riddle.
  3. To fill or spread throughout; to pervade.
Noun
  1. (obsolete) A curtain; bed-curtain
  2. (religious) One of the pair of curtains enclosing an altar on the north and south
Verb
  1. (transitive, obsolete) To plait
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