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Meaning of Riddling | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

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

Equivalents

العربية الحلّ

Examples

“Hence the laughter of ridicule, whether spontaneous or incited by words, and hence too the laughter of wit, which has an intermediate ancestry in such mental tussles or riddlings as may at one time have taken the place of more savage physical strife.”
“The good grain is riddled by hand into a heap at a convenient part of the barn, and the riddlings are thrown among the stuff which descends to the floor through the other spout.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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