Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A dunghill; a muckheap.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Same as midden.

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  • noun dialect Alternative spelling of midden.

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Examples

  • Certificate for 104 lbs. of midding tobacco from Virginia.

    The Records of the Virginia Company of London 1906

  • Though you’ll notice that its improvement was not Cheers-level; all that happened was that it got back to the level of its first season, enough to make it a middling success rather than a midding failure.

    Jaime Weinman 2010

  • Came like a sow out of a midding: "and with him danced a sleepy crew, and Belial lashed them with a bridle-rein, and the fiends gave them a turn in the fire to make them nimbler.

    Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country Alexander Smith 1848

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