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Etymology 1
Noun
ghole (plural gholes)
- Archaic form of ghoul.
1842, Matthew Bridges, Babbicombe, Or Visions of Memory: With Other Poems, page 14:So now all sense re-stretching to the full,
I felt the approach of this accursed hull, —
Leviathan in size, with ghosts and gholes
Employed on board in torturing other souls: […]
Etymology 2
Noun
ghole (plural gholes)
- Alternative form of gole (“troops”)
- quoted in 1851, James Baillie Fraser, Military Memoir of Lieut.-Col. James Skinner
- Both gholes attempted to turn his flanks, but the men behaved ill, and we were repulsed.
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