manikin (mannequin) a little man; dwarf; here, being a translation of the name Grildrig, the name given to Gulliver by the farmer’s daughter.
pillion a cushion attached behind a saddle for an extra rider.
gimlet-holes holes made by a gimlet, a small boring tool with a handle at right angles to a shaft having at the other end a spiral, pointed cutting edge; here, meaning the holes bored in Gulliver’s traveling box.
the Sign of the Green Eagle an inn where Gulliver performed.
Ganges a river in northern India, flowing from the Himalayas into the Bay of Bengal.
