[ˈrɪdl], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a question or statement intentionally phrased so as to require ingenuity in ascertaining its answer or meaning
(e.g: they started asking riddles and telling jokes)


Phrases:
- speak in riddles

Origin:
Old English rǣdels, rǣdelse ‘opinion, conjecture, riddle’; related to Dutch raadsel, German Rätsel, also to read

[ˈrɪdl], (Verb)

Definitions:
- speak in or pose riddles
(e.g: he who knows not how to riddle)


Phrases:
- speak in riddles

Origin:
Old English rǣdels, rǣdelse ‘opinion, conjecture, riddle’; related to Dutch raadsel, German Rätsel, also to read

[ˈrɪdl], (Verb)

Definitions:
- make many holes in (someone or something), especially with gunshot
(e.g: his car was riddled by sniper fire)

- pass (a substance) through a large coarse sieve
(e.g: for final potting, the soil mixture is not riddled)


Phrases:

Origin:
late Old English hriddel, of Germanic origin; from an Indo-European root shared by Latin cribrum ‘sieve’, cernere ‘separate’, and Greek krinein ‘decide’

[ˈrɪdl], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a large coarse sieve, especially one used for separating ashes from cinders or sand from gravel


Phrases:

Origin:
late Old English hriddel, of Germanic origin; from an Indo-European root shared by Latin cribrum ‘sieve’, cernere ‘separate’, and Greek krinein ‘decide’