Good at definitions? Read of Mice and Men? Please help me!?

Drowned seems obvious. Past tense of to drown. Linament is something that is rubbed on muscles to loosen them and relieve pain. I think you mean cesspool, and this is where sewage goes. Gray backs I think means elderly, old like gray hair etc. And last if you mean gristle it is the stuff in meat, kind of like fat but harder and very chewy.

Drowned means to die in water; you can't breathe water. Liniment is something to put on your muscles to make them stop aching; Absorbine, Jr., is an example. Caspool? Maybe cesspool? That's the place your toilet flushes to, where the material sits until the bacteria have a chance to eat it up. (You know what material!) Gray Backs: probably refers to Confederate soldiers, who wore gray uniforms. Frankly, I don't remember the reference. Grittle? Maybe griddle? The hot iron thing you cook on -- you know, the large flat iron surface in a restaurant, or a smaller one you can put over a fire, on which you can cook burgers or pancakes (sometimes called griddle cakes) or whatever. Been some 30 years since I read Of Mice and Men.

I would say for drowned, it means the lungs filled with water or some other substance. Lininment is a medicated liquid rubbed on the skin