1. riddle - Noun
2. riddle - Verb
3. Riddle - Proper noun
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.
Source: Webster's dictionaryI cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest. Winston Churchill
Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. Winston Churchill
Riddle of destiny, who can show; What thy short visit meant, or know; What thy errand here below. Charles Lamb
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
A riddle made by God has no solution. Zambian Proverb
Put a riddle to a fool a clever person will solve it. Swahili Proverb