riddle

1. 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?

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

1. To speak ambiguously or enigmatically.
2. To solve, answer, or explicate a riddle or question.

   Riddle me this.

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

1. 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.

2. To fill with holes like a riddle.

   The shots from his gun began to riddle the targets.

3. To fill or spread throughout; to pervade.

   Your argument is riddled with errors.

1. A curtain; bed-curtain
2. One of the pair of curtains enclosing an altar on the north and south

verb

To plait