cruel

hardness, firmness, stiffness, toughness

shallow wide-mouthed iron boiler (for boiling sugar in) a boiling-pan, boiler, cauldron (also written karhaya)

decorum, good manner, etiquette

stiffen, make tough

Firmness,hardness, rigidity, stiffness, toughness, strictness, hardness, restraint

a tough day, time of trouble

high price

hard times, trying time

To have a hard time.

fitting reply, biting retort

thunders (of lighting)

a crash (as of anything breaking, or of a falling house, burst of thunder

very large shallow cauldron

small cauldron, frying-pan, metal utensil for frying

a high and perpendicular bank of a river, high and steep river bank

brink, precipice, declivity, the perpendicular bank of river

Strong protest.

successive sounds of crashes, crackling

crunchy

a type of meat dish

(of pan) be placed on fire to cook food, to frying of the dish

severe cold, very cold winter

cook anything as offering

to starve

lick the pot

pass days in extreme poverty, go without food, starve

extreme sunshine, severe heat of the sun