riddle stick

riddle stick
a fire poker with a perpendicular piece of iron at the end for raking ashes through the grate.

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  • stick — I n 1. branch, limb, stem, bough, spray, switch, twig; shoot, sprout, runner, tendril, scion. 2. kindling, fagot, tinder; firewood, brush, brushwood, driftwood. 3. rod, wand, baton, staff, pike, pole; scepter, crosier, crook, standard, caduceus;… …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

  • riddle — 1 noun (C) 1 a question that is deliberately very confusing and usually has a humorous or clever answer: Solve this riddle What is black and white and red all over? Answer An embarrassed zebra. 2 a mysterious action, event, or situation that you… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • riddle — Synonyms and related words: Chinese puzzle, anagram, answer, arabesque, assort, auger, babble, baffle, bafflement, basketry, basketwork, be Greek to, be beyond one, be too deep, beat one, bewilderment, bite, blaze, blaze a trail, blemish, blotch …   Moby Thesaurus

  • Veronese Riddle — The Veronese Riddle is a riddle, apparently half Italian, half Latin, written on the margin of a parchment, probably in the early 9th century, by a Catholic monk from Verona, a city in the Veneto region, in Northern Italy. It was a very popular… …   Wikipedia

  • Tohby Riddle — is an Australian cartoonist and picture book creator. In 2005 he became editor of The School Magazine, in which his illustrations, non fiction pieces and poems appear regularly. History Tohby was born in Sydney, Australia, and has lived there… …   Wikipedia

  • sticker — stick•er [[t]ˈstɪk ər[/t]] n. 1) a person or thing that sticks 2) an adhesive label 3) something, as a problem or riddle, that puzzles or nonplusses one 4) a bur, thorn, or the like • Etymology: 1575–85 …   From formal English to slang

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