funk-hole

He was standing at the entrance of a cosy little funk-hole, his boots and tunic undone, sniffing the morning nitro-glycerine.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, March 21, 1917 Various

Major Mallaby-Kelby had just called out that the place was so complete that even a funk-hole had been provided, when a gunner emerged.

Pushed and the Return Push George Herbert Fosdike Nichols

Six-inch girders to support the concrete roof, and an underground passage as a funk-hole from bombs, shells, and gas.

Pushed and the Return Push George Herbert Fosdike Nichols

A high-velocity shell had hit the edge of the gully not ten yards from them, and their adjutant and their intelligence officer had described to me their acrobatic plunge into the funk-hole.

Pushed and the Return Push George Herbert Fosdike Nichols

At the subaltern's order the blacks prodded the walls with their bayonets and hammered the floor with the butt ends of their rifles, but no suspicion of the existence of a concealed "funk-hole" was to be traced.

Wilmshurst of the Frontier Force Ernest [Illustrator] Prater 1917

On Friday rain came, and Charles Copeman, who had, as already indicated, a passion for digging -- caught, perchance, in boyhood from his father's sexton -- dug a funk-hole from the enemy shell-fire.

The Leicestershires beyond Baghdad Edward John Thompson 1916

One afternoon, when I was pretending to doze in a niche near the entrance to Colonel Kirby's funk-hole, I became possessed of the key to it all; for Colonel Kirby's voice was raised more than once in anger.

Hira Singh : when India came to fight in Flanders Talbot Mundy 1909

Even so I think I would have held my tongue, only that Gooja Singh, who dozed in a niche on the other side of the funk-hole entrance, heard the same as I.

Hira Singh : when India came to fight in Flanders Talbot Mundy 1909

He indicates a bayonet stuck in the wall of the trench close to the mouth of a funk-hole -- "There, hanging on the toothpick there."

Under Fire: the story of a squad Henri Barbusse 1904

Anyway, as the others were saying just now, if they get into a funk-hole, the worst filthiness they can do is to make people believe they've run risks.

Under Fire: the story of a squad Henri Barbusse 1904