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People buy me to eat but never eat me. What am I?
What can you lose that will cause other people to lose theirs too?
Two in a whole and four in a pair. Six in a trio you see. Eight's a quartet but what you must get is the name that fits just one of me.
In your fire you hear me scream creaking and whining yet I am dead before you lay me in your hearth.
I am used to bat with, yet I never get a hit. I am near a ball, yet never thrown. What am I?
What is full of holes but still holds water