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Blade to blade I always win My foe laid low and even. Yard by yard through thick and thin I'm busiest in season.
Alone I am 24th with a friend I am 20. Another friend and I am unclean.
I am a beverage named after a stick.
Every night I'm told what to do, and each morning I do what I'm told. But I still don't escape your scold. What am I?
What has a neck but no head?
Give it food and it will live, give it water and it will die.