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A type of hammer that brings a room to order.
He has married many women but has never married.
A leathery snake, with a stinging bite. I'll stay coiled up, unless I must fight.
You can read it both ways, I wearΝΎ One way it's a number, reversed a snare.
The moon is my father. The sea is my mother. I have a million brothers. I die when I reach land.
Almost everyone needs it, asks for it, gives it. But almost nobody takes it.