midden
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(archeology) a mound of domestic refuse containing shells and animal bones marking the site of a prehistoric settlement
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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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A dunghill; a muck-heap; a receptacle for kitchen refuse, ashes, etc. See midding. [Prov. Eng. and Scotch.] Specifically -
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midden
A prehistoric muck-heap; a kitchenmidden.
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Midden
mid′en a heap of ashes or dung (see also Kitchen-midden)
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary Cf. Dan. mögdynge, E. muck, and dung,
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary Scand., as Dan. mödding—mög, dung; cf. Muck.
Shell midden could affirm tribe's stories of Hood Canal. kitsapsun.com
Contributed photo One of the shellfish midden dig sites in the shadow of the new Amberjack Avenue bridge. kitsapsun.com
BANGOR — Tribal and Navy archaeologists are mining a shell midden uncovered at Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor for information about early Native Americans. kitsapsun.com
Musqueam plan protest at Marpole Midden to mark 100 days vigil at ancient Vancouver site. vancouversun.com
THE MIDDEN By Tom Sharpe. nytimes.com
Ancient trash dumps, or middens, such as this one at Harappa in Pakistan, are rich hunting grounds for archaeologists. edition.cnn.com
Ancient trash dumps, or middens, such as this one at Harappa in Pakistan, are rich hunting grounds for archaeologists . edition.cnn.com
Students Chris Morine, Shannon Halsey and Rachel Hunt mapped another deep trench dug through the midden in centimeters. pressrepublican.com
Als je een rechte hoek met het midden op de grond zet, zoals in Fig. 1.6, moeten ze te verkrijgen zijn door vierkantjes in deze wig te laten vallen.
Topological Strings and Quantum Curves
Schema van de verschillen in de dichtheid van de zon (links), een witte dwergster (midden) en een neutronenster (rechts).
Radio Pulsars
Een wegdr ijvende nevel rond een witte dwerg (het withete puntje in het midden).
Radio Pulsars
Maar als alles in het midden aankomt, kan het niet verder en met een g igantische klap stuitert een groot deel van de ster weer weg naar buiten.
Radio Pulsars
In het midden van deze nevel staat een radio pulsar.
Radio Pulsars
For so say the police regulations of the wasps' nest: any stranger discovered must be slain and thrown on the midden. "The Life of the Fly" by
Yes, look at it now; this hole here, it's the midden for the whole Brigade. "Under Fire" by
We reached houses which we could not see; walked over slippery poles set over heaven knows what middens. "The Luck of Thirteen" by
There's the toon's midden, too; that's needin' a look intil. "My Man Sandy" by
I've struck across open fields, only to tumble against troughs, midden heaps, pig-styes. "Major Vigoureux" by
At last, as the night was closing in, the schooner Friendship ran on the rocks named the Black Middens. "Battles with the Sea" by
He was fronting us with the unspoken superiority of the fowl on its own midden, but he had a most heart-some and invigorating glow. "John Splendid" by
A midden in the moat broke their fall; the officials fell soft, and got safely away. "From a Terrace in Prague" by
The next day it was thrown out upon the midden; and there it lay, no one daring to touch it. "Curious, if True" by
After the first glad shock, it was our habit to rummage in the general midden outside our stockings. "Chimney-Pot Papers" by
How I plunge and batten on
Earth's exentrate carrion,
Deem turquoise match midden-mould
Or deny the Hawk of Gold!
And when, to grasp more power and feasts,
Its ores are emptied, wasted, lack'd,
The middens of your burning beasts
Over her skull's midden; no knife
Rivals her whetted look, divining what conceit
Waylays simple girls, church-going,
And what heart's oven
"That valley is fatal where furnaces burn,
Yonder's the midden whose odours will madden,
That gap is the grave where the tall return."