ticking strong, heavy cloth, often striped, used for casings of mattresses, pillows, etc.
springes snares consisting of a noose attached to something under tension, as a bent tree branch.
splenetics irritable or spiteful people; here, another group of people whom Gulliver can avoid while living in the land of the Houyhnhnms.
the natural pravity (depravity) of those animals the inherent corruption and wickedness, the basic nature, of the Yahoos.
copse a thicket of small trees or shrubs.
