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In whole, you may see me on a farm or on The Moon.
Remove my rear part, you may see me in a prison or in the supermarket.
Remove my middle part, you may see me on my whole or on your head.
Remove my middle part again, you may see me on a ship or on a stage.
Remove my front part, you may see me in the previous word or on the street.
Remove my front part again, you may see me on a river or in the theatre.
What am I?
Please explain each line in your answer.
Thanks to Conifers for the inspiration.
In whole, you may see me on a farm or on The Moon.
barrow - a wheelbarrow or a lunar crater located near the northern limb of the Moon.
Remove my rear part, you may see me in a prison or in the supermarket.
bar - prison cell bars or candy/snack bars.
Remove my middle part, you may see me on my whole or on your head.
brow - the front of a barrow or the forehead.
Remove my middle part again, you may see me on a ship or on a stage.
bow - the front of a ship, or an actor bending after a performance.
Remove my front part, you may see me in the previous word or on the street.
arrow - found in an archery bow, or a street direction arrow.
Remove my front part again, you may see me on a river or in the theatre.
row - see someone row on a river, or a row of seats in a theatre.
Title: Used to Stop a Fight?
bar (prevent) and row (a fight)
This one got a few clues in, but is obviously not correct:
Cow
In whole, you may see me on a farm or on The Moon.
Cows are seen on farms, and "the cow jumped over the moon"
Remove my rear part, you may see me in a prison or in the supermarket.
CO stands for "Corrections Officer", which is a prison guard. Some supermarkets are CO-OPs...
...and that's as far as I got before realizing that word was too short to do all of the clues.
I was reading this differently, and came up with one, one-word answer:
Ship (or boat)
In whole, you may see me on a farm or on The Moon.
farms ship goods; spaceship
Remove my rear part, you may see me in a prison or in the supermarket.
Prisoners tried (succeeded?) to escape from Alcatraz in a boat by removing the rear wall of their cell; supermarkets have a gravy boat.
Remove my middle part, you may see me on my whole or on your head.
The Hull is a homophone for whole; Seafood restaurant employees often wear a boat hat, with the middle part out for their head.
Remove my middle part again, you may see me on a ship or on a stage.
A big ship uses little ships as tender and/or emergency; stages will often use just, say, the front part of a ship.
Remove my front part, you may see me in the previous word or on the street.
Space-ships, often are launched from rockets that are removed during launch; DC, Pittsburgh, Disney World, and other places do car-boat tours.
Remove my front part again, you may see me on a river or in the theatre.
A car ferry often looks like it has no front part; I saw "Titanic" in the theatre.
Lastly, the title:
The US Navy has parked ships in-between two sides to stop them from fighting.
