noozle

We had no option, and so had to pitch our tents behind the noozle in a ten-acre waste of dirtiest, lightest loam, which swished around in clouds by day and night, making us grimy as coal-heavers, powdering everything, even our food and drink, with gritty dust and covering us in our blankets inches deep.

Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan Bennet Burleigh

The Dakhala noozle was an immense depôt, stuffed full of grain, provisions, ammunition boxes, ropes, wires, iron, medical stores and other material, like one of the great London docks.

Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan Bennet Burleigh