plural of riddle

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of riddle

A surname.

present participle of riddle

Material removed by riddling, or sieving. / The posing or solving of a riddle.

(transitive, obsolete) To plait.

A verbal puzzle, mystery, or other problem of an intellectual nature.

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.

To put something through a riddle or sieve; to sieve; to sift. / To fill with holes like a riddle. / To fill or spread throughout; to pervade.

(obsolete) A curtain; bedcurtain. / (religious) One of the pair of curtains enclosing an altar on the north and south.