Answer:
What is full of holes, but can still hold a lot of water?
This thing all things devours: Birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Gnaws iron, bites steel; Grinds hard stones to meal; Slays king, ruins town, And beats high mountains down.
They're up near the sky, on something very tall. Sometimes they die, only then do they fall.
There are millions of me. I am very small but when moving fast I am deadly.
A horrid monster hides from the day, with many legs and many eyes. With silver chains it catches prey. And eats it all before it dies. Yet in every cottage does it stay. And every castle beneath the sky.
Almost everyone needs it, asks for it, gives it. But almost nobody takes it.