ghole
English
editEtymology 1
editNoun
editghole (plural gholes)
- 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
editNoun
editghole (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.
- quoted in 1851, James Baillie Fraser, Military Memoir of Lieut.-Col. James Skinner
References
edit- ^ “ghole”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.