riddles

A 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?”

An ancient verbal, poetic, or literary form, in which, rather than a rhyme scheme, there are parallel opposing expressions with a hidden meaning.

To speak ambiguously or enigmatically.

To solve, answer, or explicate a riddle or question.

“Riddle me this.”

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 with a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it.

To put something through a riddle or sieve, to sieve, to sift.

“You have to riddle the gravel before you lay it on the road.”

To fill with holes like a riddle.

“The shots from his gun began to riddle the targets.”

To fill or spread throughout; to pervade.

“Your argument is riddled with errors.”

A curtain; bed-curtain

One of the pair of curtains enclosing an altar on the north and south

To plait