garret the space, room, or rooms just below the roof of a house; attic.
damage to the pile a pile is a long, heavy timber driven into the ground to support a structure; here, meaning that Gulliver did not want to damage the structural support of the Emperor’s palace by stepping in the wrong place.
fortnight a period of two weeks.
schism a split or division in an organized group or society, especially a church, as the result of difference of opinion, of doctrine, etc.
