Ghole

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Archaic form of ghoul. alt-of, archaic

    "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: […]"

  2. 2
    Alternative form of gole (“troops”). alt-of, alternative

    "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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afreetape-manbaba yagabarghestbete noirebody snatcher

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"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: […]"

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