MIDDEN

n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

A dunghill. [Prov. Eng.]

2.
n.

An accumulation of refuse about a dwelling place; especially, an accumulation of shells or of cinders, bones, and other refuse on the supposed site of the dwelling places of prehistoric tribes, -- as on the shores of the Baltic Sea and in many other places. See Kitchen middens.


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