ghole

Archaic form of ghoul.

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: […]

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.