While traveling, the Hound essentially gives up on life. He asks Arya to kill him to put him out of his misery, but she refuses electing instead to let him suffer and leaving him to die. His fate remains unknown, with conflicting evidence in the books on whether he lives or dies.
Production Operation. any part of the industrial process that is treated as a distinct element for the purposes of such design and organizational considerations as planning, accounting, and control.
Technological operations are part of the technological process of a production shop, section, or assembly line. They are carried out at a particular work position on a single object or on several simultaneously processed objects by a single worker or production brigade.