Définitions
1.NounA verbal puzzle, mystery, or other problem of an intellectual nature."Here's a riddle: It's black, and white, and red all over. What is it?"
2.NounAn ancient verbal, poetic, or literary form, in which, rather than a rhyme scheme, there are parallel opposing expressions with a hidden meaning.
3.VerbTo speak ambiguously or enigmatically.
4.VerbTo solve, answer, or explicate a riddle or question."Riddle me this."
5.NounA sieve with coarse meshes, usually of wire, for separating coarser materials from finer, as chaff from grain, cinders from ashes, or gravel from sand.
6.NounA board with a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it.
7.VerbTo put something through a riddle or sieve; to sieve; to sift."You have to riddle the gravel before you lay it on the road."
8.VerbTo fill with holes like a riddle."The shots from his gun began to riddle the targets."
9.VerbTo fill or spread throughout; to pervade (with something destructive or weakening)."Your argument is riddled with errors."
10.NounA curtain; bedcurtain.
11.NounOne of the pair of curtains enclosing an altar on the north and south.
12.VerbTo plait.