"Disappearing with traditions and customs like table manners is language [...]. Losing its referents, language itself comes to its extinction, but the father saves it by teaching his son to read."

https://doi.org/10.7771/1481-4374.2732

More on "Worldview" here: https://ontheroadtotheroad7.wordpress.com/?p=226

"[...] one of Plato's most famous theories - the often debated allegory of the Cave - [...] is interwoven in [...] The Road."

"In The Road's narrative, father and son indeed wander in the vastest cave ever crafted in modern literature, a post apocalyptic, "barren, silent, godless" world."

https://www.jstor.org/stable/42909396

More on "Worldbuilding" here: https://ontheroadtotheroad7.wordpress.com/?p=194

"His dream is symbolical: the cave in which he wanders seems to be the ethical dilemma he is trapped in and from which he struggles to get out. [...] The dream is his subconscious fear and struggle not to succumb to instincts against the principle of ethics."

https://doi.org/10.7771/1481-4374.2732

More on "Worldview" here: https://ontheroadtotheroad7.wordpress.com/?p=160

"McCarthy's use of the define article "the" mythologizes the road and gives it its uniqueness, out of the countable and the ordinary, and symbolizes the journey undertaken by the father and the son."

"The road […] helps the duo out of the Cave to the Sun through a "process of enlightenment [which] is portrayed as a journey from darkness into light" (Annas 253,) from a light they desperately seek from the Sun that will be necessary to guide them out of the Cave, and therefore out of the land of despair."

https://www.jstor.org/stable/42909396

"Readers saw something in this book that struck them deeply: [...] maybe what calls people back to its pages so frequently is a deeper truth: we know full well that we're on a road. And though our lives may feel ashen and corrupt, stuck in a swirling haze, we keep getting up. We keep hunting for firewood. We keep chasing the possibility of forgotten canned goods in the storehouse of someone else's life. We keep "carrying the fire"."

https://wm.wts.edu/read/a-reflection-on-mccarthys-the-road

More on "Road" here: https://ontheroadtotheroad7.wordpress.com/?p=226

"The real darkness from the book comes not from the ashen apocalyptic world they trudge through—with all of its rust, char, and desolation, its silhouettes of life once lived buried beneath the debris of death. It comes from the smallness of the light they think is worth chasing, a light they think is inside themselves, an earthly light. [...] The man and the boy struggle all the way to the end to maintain a light of hope that is essentially dark, because it is bound to a world not that is passing away, but that has passed away."

https://wm.wts.edu/read/a-reflection-on-mccarthys-the-road

More on "Worldview" here: https://ontheroadtotheroad7.wordpress.com/?p=160

"God is on the periphery of their hopes, present but not tangible enough to invest in."

https://wm.wts.edu/read/a-reflection-on-mccarthys-the-road

More on "God" here: https://ontheroadtotheroad7.wordpress.com/?p=154

"Color in the world — except for fire and blood — exists mainly in memory or dream."

www.nytimes.com/2021/10/21/books/review/review-the-road-by-cormac-mccarthy.html

More on "Worldbuilding" here: https://ontheroadtotheroad7.wordpress.com/?p=194

"[...] the father was right about goodness: it arrives on cue as a deus ex machina that has been following the pair and swiftly enfolds the boy savior into a holy family, maybe a holy commune, where they talk of the breath of God passing “from man to man through all of time.”

www.nytimes.com/2021/10/21/books/review/review-the-road-by-cormac-mccarthy.html

More on "Ending" here: https://ontheroadtotheroad7.wordpress.com/?p=201

"[...] the world represented by the father, the world of late industrial, patriarchal, capitalist individualism, cannot survive much longer without a change in our ethical comportment, a change that privileges community over goods and the relief of suffering over future-oriented calculations. It’s a simple, even childlike, moral prescription, yet one that McCarthy’s novel suggests might be the only hope for we humans at the end of the world."

https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/cormmccaj.16.2.0133

More on "Ending" here: https://ontheroadtotheroad7.wordpress.com/?p=201

"The encounter with the thief reveals the complete inhumanity of the father’s abandonment of community. [...] the mere reclamation of their lost goods quickly ceases to be the father’s principle aim; rather, he seeks revenge, taking everything the man has, despite its utter lack of value to them [...]."

https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/cormmccaj.16.2.0133

More on "Worldview" here: https://ontheroadtotheroad7.wordpress.com/?p=160

"[...] the father’s reluctance to offer help to the man springs from his conviction that such help would ultimately imperil their own chances of survival."

https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/cormmccaj.16.2.0133

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"[...] in the father’s final attempt to bequeath his son the principles and wisdom that have led them throughout the novel, we discover that these rules are empty, ideological hopes rather than practical methods of success. Implicit in this concession is the notion not only that the father’s rules cannot assure his son’s survival, but that it is precisely doing the opposite of these rules, a willingness to take chances, to retrace one’s steps, and to leave one’s gun that open possibilities of future success."

https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/cormmccaj.16.2.0133

More on "Ending" here:

"Here we return to the fundamentally masculine and individualist orientation of the father’s worldview, the chance of survival requiring a cold, self-interested, and absolute calculation of cost and benefit. Yet McCarthy’s doubling down on this masculine ethos of cost benefit is hardly an endorsement, since the father undermines the truth of his logic through the link he draws between survival and luck."

https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/cormmccaj.16.2.0133

More on "Worldview": https://ontheroadtotheroad7.wordpress.com/?p=160

"These questions and the boy’s anxiety about the fate of the other boy are, of course, as much anxious questions about his own fate."

https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/cormmccaj.16.2.0133

More on "Ending" here: https://ontheroadtotheroad7.wordpress.com/?p=201

"In the father we see, following Stark, a prototypical Western subject: masculine, American, white, Christian, middle-class, heteronormative, able-bodied, and well-educated. He is the very picture of rugged American individualism with his stereotypically masculine proclivity for tools and guns, his knowledge of woodcraft and survivalism, his no tears attitude, and his dogged persistence [...]."

https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/cormmccaj.16.2.0133

More on "Worldview" here: https://ontheroadtotheroad7.wordpress.com/?p=160

"Dreams play an important role in McCarthy's narratives; most of his stories are marked by the weirdness of reminiscence and the deceitful power of dream and dreamlike narratives."

https://www.jstor.org/stable/42909396

More on "Style" here: https://ontheroadtotheroad7.wordpress.com/?p=205

"Sight and blindness in the Bible are often associated with the power of God and therefore the power of faith upon mankind: men are cured from blindness thanks to the power of God and the power of faith. I would not say that McCarthy is setting the father's upcoming blindness as an example of moral disorder or sin per se, but I do think it connects with the loss of faith and the loss of will to see the truth since in The Road most of those who have lost sight and hope end up dead".

https://www.jstor.org/stable/42909396

More on "God" here: https://ontheroadtotheroad7.wordpress.com/?p=154

"The motive of blindness has often been dear to McCarthy who used the device several times in the past [...]".

More on "Style" here: https://ontheroadtotheroad7.wordpress.com/?p=205

"The father's oblivion has not reached the medical stage of blindness, but many around him have: his wife, for example, is blind by the time she nears her death; the man struck by lightning is also half blind [...]; and both are described as being bound to die. Blindness in The Road ,whether it is physical or spiritual, acts as a harbinger of death [...]."

More on "Worldview" here: https://ontheroadtotheroad7.wordpress.com/?p=160

https://www.jstor.org/stable/42909396

"[...] dreams may affect perception but they are also a clear indicator of life since it indicates persistent perception. Once death is upon men dreams indeed cease, which is the case of the wife [...]."

https://www.jstor.org/stable/42909396

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"[...] most of dreams or memories refer to the past as it once was, a past the father is struggling to let go.[...] The persistent rivalry between dreams and reality is one of the father's most difficult and tempting conflicts."

https://www.jstor.org/stable/42909396

More on "Worldview" here: https://ontheroadtotheroad7.wordpress.com/?p=160

"Every social institution and convention that could serve as a hallmark of civilization has passed so far into oblivion that, as Ashley Kunsa argues, the names of places, road, and people have passed into meaninglessness, leaving only the deeds of individuals to providing meaning and morality to the world (61–63). The most important dividing line for the boy is the assurance from his father that they will not eat people."

https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/cormmccaj.13.1.0143

More on "Worldview" here: https://ontheroadtotheroad7.wordpress.com/?p=160

"[…] the road in the novel is very linear and stands out of the landscape as if stronger than the declining landscape, an echo of the declining society [...]."

https://www.jstor.org/stable/42909396

More on "Road" here:

"Parataxis, according to the Oxford English Dictionary , is "the placing of propositions or clauses one after another, without indicating by connecting words the relation (of coordination or subordination) between them." Such a narrow literal definition is often broadened to encompass amore inclusive paratactic style, in which polysyndeton, the use of many coordinating conjunctions to connect clauses, also operates in a paratacticway. Examples of this rhetorical figure can be found throughoutMcCarthy's corpus."

"The parataxis both reflects the texture of the disjunctive and depleted post-apocalyptic world and diminishes conceptual categories with which the human mind customarily shapes its encounter with reality."

https://www.jstor.org/stable/42909448

More on "Style" here: https://ontheroadtotheroad7.wordpress.com/?p=205

"In the absence of photosynthetic flora, the atmosphere of the planet would gradually slide into chemical equilibrium, all of its oxygen being locked away through oxidation (the rusting of iron, for example). In such an environment, fires would be increasingly difficult to ignite, relying as they do upon the presence of sufficient quantities of oxygen. Human existence would have become impossible long before such an occurrence, however, given our dependence upon oxygen. The ability to light a controlled fire, one of the activities repeated by the man and boy throughout the novel, is thus a feature of an environment which has a very specific chemical make-up, one which is conducive to life. Considered from this angle, to "carry the fire" is thus to carry the relatively modest hope that life could possibly return to the planet again, in the understanding that at least one necessary condition is still being met by the environment. While fire is closely associated with death and destruction in the novel, it also stands for life itself."

https://www.jstor.org/stable/42909448

More on "Fire" here: https://ontheroadtotheroad7.wordpress.com/?p=218

"The novel repeatedly transposes descriptive terms and metaphors from physiology to the environment."

More on "Style" here: https://ontheroadtotheroad7.wordpress.com/?p=194

"The novel seems to suggest a correspondence between the functioning of a biological organismand the global ecosystems whose collapse is so apparent."

More on "Worldbuilding" here: https://ontheroadtotheroad7.wordpress.com/?p=194

https://www.jstor.org/stable/42909448

"[...] fleeting image of the past, before the religion of capitalism takes hold. [...] the past tense of the paragraph indicates that a human hand does eventually take the trout for its own possession, giving it over to the realm of property, closing off the common use and the cognizance of that mystery and wonder of the “world in its becoming.”

https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/cormmccaj.13.1.0143

More on "Ending" here: https://ontheroadtotheroad7.wordpress.com/?p=201

"This achingly mournful passage alone would justify the novel's exaggerated representation of environmental collapse, as it closes the narrative with a poetic vision of vitality which is made all the more affecting through its analeptic framing within a desolated world. […] The destitution of the novel's present-day world heightens the affective power of this simple image of an organism swimming in fresh water […]."

https://www.jstor.org/stable/42909448

More on "Worldbuilding" here: https://ontheroadtotheroad7.wordpress.com/?p=194

"The centrality of natural forces in McCarthy's vision of the world is expressed in the novel's assertion that the maps and mazes on the trout's backs, cartographic puzzles through which life's mystery is both delineated and obscured, are visual schemata of natural processes which are beyond the power of humanity to restore to the world once they are lost."

https://www.jstor.org/stable/42909448

More on "Ending" here: https://ontheroadtotheroad7.wordpress.com/?p=201

"The pervasiveness of consumption in The Road is evident even in the word choices of its characters and narrator. If the novel portends an end of capitalism, its setting presents an environment that is merely what is left after absolutely every resource has been harvested or appropriated, leaving only refuse, junk, and litter. The destiny of the consumed thing is to become waste, a word that appears several times in The Road, always as descriptions of the ashen dead landscape. [...] the world is both vast and empty and also the waste of itself, spent, used up, the leftovers from the passing away of the consumer society and the society of vagabonds and bloodcults wrenching nearly every last resource from the land and finally killing and eating each other."

https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/cormmccaj.13.1.0143

More on "Worlbuilding" here: https://ontheroadtotheroad7.wordpress.com/?p=194

"The remnant society of The Road has reached the totalizing end of capitalism, one in which everything and everyone is subject to ownership, exchange, and acquisition for consumption."

https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/cormmccaj.13.1.0143

More on "Worldbuilding" here: https://ontheroadtotheroad7.wordpress.com/?p=194

"[...] cannibalism as a critique of unchecked consumption of environmental resources and the products made with them. Images of marketing, branding, and shopping have survived the catastrophe and serve as markers of past consumption that have outlived its own heyday."

https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/cormmccaj.13.1.0143

More on "Worlbuilding" here: https://ontheroadtotheroad7.wordpress.com/?p=194

"[...] misery necessitates faith. In the case of the man, his love for his son motivates him to keep going. His problem is that his desire to keep going appears to lack a rational foundation. [...] Nevertheless, the man keeps on going despite recognizing, at some level, that the struggle may very well be futile. Because it is in the nature of human beings to desire that the things they do make sense, he grasps for beliefs that will make his struggle make sense. Among these is the belief that he is on a divine mission. It is not that he wants to keep going because he believes that he is on a divine mission. Rather, the desire comes first: because he wants to keep going, he believes - or tries to believe - that he is on a divine mission."

https://www.jstor.org/stable/42909407

More on "God" here: https://ontheroadtotheroad7.wordpress.com/?p=154

"Great suffering appears to constitute evidence against the existence of a loving God, but it also has the capacity to produce or strengthen belief in such a God. It is when we suffer that we most need belief in a loving God to keep ourselves going. The more reason we have to doubt God's reality, the more we need to believe."

https://www.jstor.org/stable/42909407

More on "God" here: https://ontheroadtotheroad7.wordpress.com/?p=154

"The book of Genesis depicts God as creating through speech (Genesis 1:1-31); a God that does not speak is a God that does not create. Thus, the man's declaration is that either his son is the word of God, or, for all practical purposes, the universe is a godless one."

http://www.jstor.org/stable/42909407

More on "God" here: https://ontheroadtotheroad7.wordpress.com/?p=154

A narrow, secluded valley.

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/glen

Marked with irregular fine lines or with wavy impressed lines.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/vermiculate

Moss is a very small soft green plant which grows on damp soil, or on wood or stone.

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/moss

To cause to ripple.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wimple

A small stream.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/brook

Also called "fore-end", the forestock is the part of the stock of a firearm under the barrel and forward of the trigger guard.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fore-end

Twisted into a firm, messy mass.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/matted

Broken.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stoven

A belt worn over the shoulder and across the breast often for the suspending or supporting of some article (such as cartridges) or as a part of an official or ceremonial dress.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bandolier

When something heaves into view or heaves into sight, it appears.

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/heave-into-view-heave-into-sight

A type of light brown or greyish soil, consisting of very small pieces of quartz and clay, that is blown and left behind by the wind.

Something likened to wax as soft, impressionable, or readily molded.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wax

Entered by gradual steps or by stealth.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/encroach

A rickety structure or piece of furniture is not very strong or well made, and seems likely to collapse or break.

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/rickety

Plywood is wood that consists of thin layers of wood stuck together.

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/plywood

A narrow piece of land with water on each side that joins two larger areas of land.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/isthmus

A least bit especially of clothing.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stitch

Moorland is land which consists of moors, areas of open and usually high land with poor soil that is covered mainly with grass and heather.

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/moorland https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/moor

Unpleasantly thin, often with bones showing.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/scrawny

Someone who is sullen is bad-tempered and does not speak much.

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/sullen

Transporting in or as if in a wheeled vehicle.

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/trundle

Breathing with difficulty usually with a whistling sound.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wheeze

A slow regular jerky pace (usually of a horse, or on horseback).

https://www.oed.com/dictionary/jog-trot_n?tab=meaning_and_use#40414780

To plod through or as if through mud.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/slough

Union grass, especially a tall grass.

https://www.oed.com/dictionary/sea-oats_n?tab=meaning_and_use#1171082000100

A long, low and often wet area of land.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/swale

To reduce especially by eliminating superfluous matter.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/prune

Usually ankle-length boots, slippers, or socks.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bootee

A tendril is something light and thin, for example a piece of hair which hangs loose and is away from the main part.

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/tendril

To set (the trigger) for firing.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cock

To dig, gather, or pull out with or as if with a dredge (a machine for removing earth usually by buckets on an endless chain or a suction tube). Here it means "to draw in the sand".

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/dredge

A kind of sandal or moccasin of untanned cowhide or sealskin sewn together and tied across the instep, traditionally worn by the inhabitants of the Aran Islands. Usually in plural.

https://www.oed.com/dictionary/pampootie_n?tab=meaning_and_use#32117635

Sailcloth is a strong heavy cloth that is used for making things such as sails or tents.

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/sailcloth

Personal or household effects.

Interestingly, "plunder" can also mean something taken by force, theft, or fraud.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/plunder

To walk through water or other liquid with some effort, because it is deep enough to come quite high up your legs, or thick.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/wade

Cut off from view.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shroud

A saucer is a small curved plate on which you stand a cup.

It could also mean "flying saucer", a round, flat object which some people say they have seen in the sky and which they believe to be a spacecraft from another planet.

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/saucer https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/flying-saucer

Moving or traveling back and forth frequently.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shuttle

Hanging loosely or laxly.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/loll

In a state of extreme agitation.

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/seething

"Razorous" is a made-up yet intuitively word used by McCarthy to mean "like a razor".

Having lumps (= raised areas) on the surface.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/knobby

Slang for the buttocks.

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/tokus

To run nimbly.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scamper

Long, narrow parts of some plants that contains the seeds and usually has a thick skin.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/seed-pod?q=seedpod

Frost formed by the freezing of supercooled water droplets in fog onto solid objects.

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/rime

Removed color because of salt.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bleach

Seaweed or other marine vegetation that is floating in the sea or has been cast ashore.

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/wrack

Lines of leaves, snow, dust, etc, swept together by the wind.

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/windrow

A cove is a part of a coast where the land curves inwards so that the sea is partly enclosed.

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/cove

Wood that is floating on the sea or brought onto the beach by the sea.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/driftwood

A large fern (= a type of plant) that grows thickly in open areas of countryside, especially on hills, and in woods.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/bracken

A sudden strong wind or short storm.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/squall

The fused material formed during the smelting or refining of metals.

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/slag

A large container used for mixing or storing liquid substances, especially in a factory.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/vat

Keeled over to one side. "To keel over " means to turn upside down.

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/careen https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/keel-over

A ship or vehicle that is built to carry liquid or gas.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/tanker

A leaden sky or sea is dark grey and has no movement of clouds or waves.

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/leaden

Long curling waves of the sea.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/comber

Determination and seriousness, especially when this is without humour.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/earnestness

A small flat piece separated from a whole.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flake

To get someone to do something by gentle urging, special attention, or flattery.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coax

Capable of being passed into or through.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/passable

To do or make something quickly and not very carefully.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/cobble-together?q=cobble+something+together

Lewd, unchaste.

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/whorish

A cigar cut square at both ends.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cheroot

Thin and delicate, often in a way that is attractive.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/slender

Covering for a bed, made of two layers of cloth with a layer of soft filling between them, and stitched in lines or patterns through all the layers.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/quilt

A yoke is a long piece of wood which is tied across the necks of two animals such as oxen, in order to make them walk close together when they are pulling a plough.

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/yoke

Boys kept by a pederast.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/catamite

A piece of equipment with straps and belts, used to control or hold in place a person, animal, or object.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/harness

A particular way of walking.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/gait

Short club with a thick, heavy, or loaded end.

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/bludgeon

Cords.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lanyard

Rolled around in an ungainly manner.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wallow

An artificial slope made of earth and/or stones.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/embankment

A narrow or winding passage.

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/creek

Infested with nits [nits are the eggs of insects called lice which live in people's hair].

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/nitty https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/nit

Slightly burned, or damaged by fire or heat.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/scorched

With the the top half of the body bent forward and down.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/stooped

Black sticky substance that is used especially for making roads.

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/tar

To be subjected to the action of intense heat.

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/cook

Any of various pasty materials used as protective coatings or cements.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mastic

Small broken stones used in making roads.

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/macadam

Having no religion, or belonging to a religion that is not Christianity, Judaism, or Islam.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/heathen

Shallow gullies or ravines.

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/draw

Thin narrow flat strips especially of wood or metal.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/slat

Interestiingly, the slang word "slats" can also refer to the ribs or the buttocks.

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/slats

Lacking light.

https://www.oed.com/dictionary/wan_adj1?tab=meaning_and_use#15294095

Any of the parallel beams that support a roof.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rafters

Something frail, slight, or fleeting.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wisp

Shabby, unkempt.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ratty

The strong, thick skin of an animal, used for making leather.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/hide

A small saw used especially for cutting metal.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/hacksaw

Pierced, perforated.

https://www.oed.com/dictionary/bore_v1?tab=meaning_and_use#16513011

Blowing strongly.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/gust?q=gust+

Snow which has been partially thawed by falling through an atmosphere of a temperature a little above freezing-point, usually accompanied by rain or snow.

https://www.oed.com/dictionary/sleet_n1?tab=meaning_and_use#22195712

A person or animal that goes from one place to another looking for people to kill or things to steal or destroy.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/marauder

Long, narrow raised parts of a surface, especially a high edge along a mountain.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/ridge

An outdoor fire often used as a signal fire.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/balefires

The watery substance resulting from the partial melting of snow or ice.

https://www.oed.com/dictionary/slush_n1?tab=meaning_and_use#22329555

Any of various tall grasses with slender often prominently jointed stems that grow especially in wet areas.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/reeds

To fasten with or as if with a clamp or to hold tightly.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/clamp

A material used on the surface of roads.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/blacktop

Darkness or thick cloud, preventing you from seeing clearly.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/murk

A way of walking or moving using long, relaxed steps.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/lope

"Bowel", usually used in plural, can have more than one meaning: - one of the divisions of the intestines; - the seat of pity, tenderness, or courage; - the interior parts, especially the deep or remote parts.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bowels

A calcareous deposit formed as a ring around an overflowing basin (as of a mineral hot spring).

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rimstone

A shaft, tube, or pipe, especially as used in a chimney, to carry off smoke, gas, etc.

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/flue

Any mineral deposit, especially of calcium carbonate, formed in a cave by flowing water.

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/flowstone

A piece of material used especially for protecting exposed objects or areas.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tarpaulin

A disease of the eye marked by increased pressure within the eyeball that can result in damage to the optic disc and gradual loss of vision.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/glaucoma

To reduce the light.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dim

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