the
main character of the book Gulliver's Travels, a satire by
English writer Jonathan Swift (1667–1745). Lemuel Gulliver, a n Englishman, travels
exotic lands, including Lilliput (where the people are six inches tall), Brobdingnag (where the people are seventy feet tall), and the land of the Houyhnhnms (where horses are the intelligent beings, and humans, called Yahoos, are mute brutes of
labor). Probably the most famous
image from this book is of the tiny
Lilliputians having tied down the sleeping giant, Gulliver.
—SHSBC Binder 33 Approved Glossary, —NED Approved Glossary