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.
This, therefore, has become the stereotypical image of the sled dog for most people. However the vast majority of safari companies, for instance, use, rather, so-called 'Alaskan' huskies which may in fact be quite far from this 'typical' Holywood husky in appearance.