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riddling


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Riddle  \Rid"dle\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Riddled};  p.  pr  &  vb  n. 
  {Riddling}.] 
  1.  To  separate,  as  grain  from  the  chaff,  with  a  riddle;  to 
  pass  through  a  riddle;  as  riddle  wheat;  to  riddle  coal  or 
  gravel. 
 
  2.  To  perforate  so  as  to  make  like  a  riddle;  to  make  many 
  holes  in  as  a  house  riddled  with  shot. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Riddling  \Rid"dling\,  a. 
  Speaking  in  a  riddle  or  riddles;  containing  a  riddle. 
  ``Riddling  triplets.''  --Tennyson.  --  {Rid"dling},  adv 




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