a foot-operated lever used to control certain mechanisms, as automobiles, or to play or modify the sounds of certain musical instruments, as pianos, organs, or harps. 2. a leverlike part worked by the foot to supply power in various mechanisms, as the bicycle. 3. Music.
The Sled. The sled, the first memory Jonas receives from the Giver, symbolizes the journey Jonas takes during his training and the discoveries he makes. It is red, a color that symbolizes the new, vital world of feelings and ideas that Jonas discovers.
â Windan of the Kvaldir. The kvaldir (sometimes capitalized and pronounced KUH-vall-deer), or tuk-hariq (meaning walkers of the fog or sons of the mist in the tuskarr language), also known as sea vrykul, are the spirits of fearsome vrykul warriors or seafaring raiders who roam the seas raiding ships and coastal settlements.