Answer:
What always ends everything?
I am an English word that is as long as I am valued.
In buckles or lace, I help set the pace. The farther you go, the thinner I grow. What am I?
You bind me and I walk. You loosen me and I stop. What am I?
I run around the streets all day. Under the bed or by the door I sit at night never alone. my tongue hangs out waiting to be fed during the day.
An open ended barrel, it is shaped like a hive. It is filled with the flesh, and the flesh is alive!