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Etymology 1

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Noun

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ghole (plural gholes)

  1. Archaic form of ghoul.[1]
    • 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

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Noun

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ghole (plural gholes)

  1. 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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