Rudder: alternatives and connections

To tell, declare, explain, or interpret; to divine; to guess; as, to aread a riddle or a dream.

Plates or blades of "whalebone," from two to twelve feet long, and sometimes a foot wide, which in certain whales (Balaenoidea) are at…

A sieve, esp. a long fine sieve used in milling for bolting flour and meal; a bolter.

An instrument or machine for separating bran from flour, or the coarser part of meal from the finer; a sieve.

A kind of riddle based upon some fanciful or fantastic resemblance between things quite unlike; a puzzling question, of which the answ…

Divination by means of a suspended sieve.

To cause to pass through a sieve or riddle; to sift.

Resembling, or having the form of, a sieve; pierced with holes; as, the cribriform plate of the ethmoid bone; a cribriform compress.

Perforated like a sieve; cribriform.

A process of sorting ore by washing in a hand sieve.

A dark, obscure, or inexplicable saying; a riddle; a statement, the hidden meaning of which is to be discovered or guessed.

Like a sieve; cribriform.

To lay open the meaning of; to explain; to clear of obscurity; to interpret; as, to expound a text of Scripture, a law, a word, a mean…

A sieve with a wire bottom, used by miners.

To solve by a correct conjecture; to conjecture rightly; as, he who guesses the riddle shall have the ring; he has guessed my designs.

A grain sieve.

To sort or separate, as ore in a jigger or sieve. See Jigging, n.

One who, or that which, jigs; specifically, a miner who sorts or cleans ore by the process of jigging; also, the sieve used in jigging.