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An open ended barrel, it is shaped like a hive. It is filled with the flesh, and the flesh is alive!
Without this, eating food and Steven Spielberg's career would be very different.
What is put on a table, cut, but never eaten?
They're up near the sky, on something very tall. Sometimes they die, only then do they fall.
I open wide and tight I shut, Sharp am I and paper-cut fingers too, so do take care, I'm good and bad, so best beware.
People take me on walks and I run and have fun. What am I?