Answer:
What sevenยญletter word becomes longer when the third letter is removed?
What is in seasons, seconds, centuries, and minutes, but not in decades, years, or days?
You fill it and it empties, A metaphor for plenty, Depending on what half you see, It's either full or empty
Some adults still use these to count.
In your fire you hear me scream! Creaking and whining yet I am dead before you lay me in your hearth.
It can be cracked, It can be made, It can be told, it can be played. What is it?