Answer:
There is a word in the English language in which the first two letters signify a male, the first three letters signify a female, the first four signify a great man, and the whole word, a great woman. What is the word?
A hill full, a hole full, yet you cannot catch a bowl full.
What has three feet but no arms or legs?
What breaks on the water but never on the land?
My first is a body of water. My second is me. My third came before. My fourth before all three. My fifth sounds like my first. My sixth is in a lake. Put all six together to make an animal that will keep you awake.
You use it between your head and your toes, the more it works the thinner it grows.