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Midden   Listen
noun
Midden  n.  (Also midding)  
1.
A dunghill. (Prov. Eng.)
2.
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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"Midden" Quotes from Famous Books



... yard was divided into two by a fence, the lower part consisting in the main of a large, steaming midden, crossed by planks in various directions, and at the top a few inverted wheelbarrows. A couple of pigs lay half buried in the manure, asleep, and a busy flock of hens were eagerly scattering the pile of horse-dung from the last morning clearance. A large cock stood in the middle ...
— Pelle the Conqueror, Complete • Martin Andersen Nexo



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