Past riddles

If used, this could leave you sore, or I may stand in lights and sing encore. What am I?

I sit upon a fingertip, a tiny helmet fit; I turn a prick into a push and keep your skin f...

I slip out when the air grows tight, a whistling guest in chest's dim light. What am I?

You dig me to drink; you say me to mean fine. What am I?

I clasp your waist to keep things snug, yet under weight I may give way and fold. What am...

I can smile, tell time without moving, and be the surface of a thing. What am I?

I turn earth for future bread and also wallow where piglets bed. What am I?

I am a place where silence reigns, with stones that tell of life's remains. Rows and rows,...

I can mean 'go away' or 'permission to stay'; sometimes you take me, sometimes you give me...

I take root and drink the sun, I hum with gears where products run. What am I?