Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for RID'DLE
RID'DLE, v.t.1
- To separate, as grain from the chaff with a riddle; as, to riddle wheat. Note. The machines now used have nearly superseded the riddle.
- To perforate with balls; to make little holes in, as a house riddled with shot.
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