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.
—NED Approved Glossary