1682 S. Gilbert 8 Fill them up with good skreened earth or such as hath been sifted through a Wire Riddle.
1844 H. Stephens II. 281 A barley wire-riddle answers for beans.
1994 (Nexis) 31 Dec. 13 Up they went to the shaking wire riddles where the small ones [sc. potatoes] slipped through while the bigger ones went up another set of rollers into bags.