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In buckles or lace, I help set the pace. The farther you go, the thinner I grow. What am I?
What has a bottom at the top?
I am mother and father, but never give birth or nurse. I'm rarely still, but I never wander. What am I?
I row quickly with four oars but never comes out from under my own roof.
I store fire-breathing animals.
Give it food and it will live, give it water and it will die.