riddle-cakes

thick sour oaten cakes, which differ little from that which is called hand-hoven* bread, having but little leaven, and being kneaded sliffer. N.

Riddle
·vi To speak ambiguously or enigmatically. II. Riddle ·noun A board having a row of pins, set zigza...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
Riddle
(Heb. hodah). The oldest and, strictly speaking, the only example of a riddle was that propounded by...

Easton's Bible Dictionary
riddle
an oblong kind of sieve, used to clean corn ; so called because it rids it of the soil or dirt. ...

A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
riddle
A sort of weir in rivers. ♦ To riddle. To fire through and through a vessel, and reduce her to a s...

The Sailor's Word-Book
Riddle
It is known that all ancient nations, and especially Orientals, were fond of riddles. The riddles wh...

William Smith's Bible Dictionary
thar-cakes
the same with bannocks. N. See bannocks. ...

A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
hurry up the cakes
i.e. Be quick; look alive. This phrase, which has lately got into vogue, originated in the common Ne...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.