midden > define

noun

• Archeology) a mound of domestic refuse containing shells and animal bones marking the site of a prehistoric settlement.
  • synonyms: eitchen midden, kitchen midden
• A heap of dung or refuse.
  • synonyms: dunghill, muckheap, muckhill

• (n.) A dunghill.
• (n.) 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.