midden

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They make a midden, a pile of refuse -- mostly the husks of the seeds that they eat.

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  1. noun A dunghill or refuse heap.
  2. noun Archaeology A mound or deposit containing shells, animal bones, and other refuse that indicates the site of a human settlement. Also called kitchen midden.

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  • They make a midden, a pile of refuse -- mostly the husks of the seeds that they eat. —  Deborah Gordon digs ants
  • Midding is midden - I guess because corn grows well there.
  • A disorderly midden was always to be found in the near neighbourhood, with a number of draught dogs wandering about on it seeking something to eat. —  The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II
  • One evidently a female (figure 2), we are informed was found at the bottom of the kitchen midden, a strange resting-place for a goddess; the other three are grotesque efforts to represent a human face. —  The Clyde Mystery a Study in Forgeries and Folklore
  • In the farmyard the pigs were busy on the midden, and they looked at us with curious expressive eyes that peered roguishly out from under their heavy hanging cabbage-leaves of ears. —  The Red Horizon
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  1. Middle English midding, of Scandinavian origin.

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  1. Early modern English also middin, myddin, medin (in comp.); a corruption (dial. variant) of midding.
 

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