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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 having a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it. 3. To separate, as grain from the chaff, with a riddle; to pass through a riddle; as, riddle wheat; to riddle coal or gravel. 4. To perforate so as to make like a riddle; to make many holes in; as, a house riddled with shot. 5. Something proposed to be solved by guessing or conjecture; a puzzling question; an ambiguous proposition; an enigma; hence, anything ambiguous or puzzling. 6. To explain; to solve; to unriddle. 7. To speak ambiguously or enigmatically. 8. a coarse sieve as for gravel 
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