midden
Example Sentences
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At the next picnic table over, a little girl tipped an oyster back then dropped it on the ground—one more shell for the modern midden.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026
The project overall is called the Super Midden, based on midden - a word mostly used by archaeologists to describe ancient rubbish dumps.
From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2025
So far, none of the tribes he works with has insisted on midden preservation — though that’s a conversation he’d like to intensify in the coming year, as the erosion threat increases.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 28, 2023
One theory archaeologists are knocking about is the trove or artifacts might have been a midden or pit where detritus was tossed.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 27, 2019
The cottage stinks like a midden — baby’s mess everywhere.
From "Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village" by Laura Amy Schlitz
