Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Riddling"

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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