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.
sled. 1  bobber - A person who rides a bobsled or bobsleigh (meaning short sled). 2  pung - Once the name for a one-horse sled or wagon.  skate, ski, sled - The word skate was originally plural and comes from Dutch schaats, which derived from an Old French word for stilt, but the connection is unclear.