Word Meanings - RUDDER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A riddle or sieve.
Related words: (words related to RUDDER)
- RIDDLER
One who riddles . - SIEVE
1. A utensil for separating the finer and coarser parts of a pulverized or granulated substance from each other. It consist of a vessel, usually shallow, with the bottom perforated, or made of hair, wire, or the like, woven in meshes. "In a sieve - RIDDLE
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 having a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it. - GRIDDLE
W. greidell, Ir. greideal, greideil, griddle, gridiron, greadaim I 1. An iron plate or pan used for cooking cakes. 2. A sieve with a wire bottom, used by miners. - UNRIDDLE
To read the riddle of; to solve or explain; as, to unriddle an enigma or a mystery. Macaulay. And where you can't unriddle, learn to trust. Parnell. - TRIDDLER
The jacksnipe. - PRINPRIDDLE
The longtailed titmouse. - UNRIDDLER
One who unriddles. Lovelace. - GRIDDLECAKE
A cake baked or fried on a griddle, esp. a thin batter cake, as of buckwheat or common flour.