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What can you put in a barrel to make it lighter?
I am never quite what I appear to be. Straight-forward I seem, but it's only skin deep. For mystery most often lies beneath my simple speech. Sharpen your wits, open your eyes, look beyond my exteriors, read me backwards, forwards, upside down. Think and answer the question...
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?
What goes around and around the wood, but never goes into the wood?
What is long and slim, works in light. Has but one eye, and an awful bite?
You use it between your head and your toes, the more it works the thinner it grows.
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Animal
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Food
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Kids
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What am I?