midden Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun (archeology) a mound of domestic refuse containing shells and animal bones marking the site of a prehistoric settlement
    kitchen midden; eitchen midden.
  2. noun a heap of dung or refuse
    dunghill; muckheap; muckhill.

WordNet

Mid"den noun
Etymology
Cf. Dan. mögdynge, E. muck, and dung.
Definitions
  1. A dunghill. Prov. Eng.
  2. 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.

Webster 1913