Every time a pencil visits me, I eat its wooden coat to make its point sharper, yet I get fuller as the pencil gets smaller. What am I?
A pencil sharpener
Inserting a wooden pencil into a sharpener shaves away the outer casing to refine the graphite writing tip. As the pencil wears down and shortens, the sharpener's internal holding bin collects the wood shavings, filling itself up in the process.
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