kitchen midden

Historical Examples of kitchen midden

• Sir Banas, he comes in the night and makes them all alive at the back of our kitchen-midden,' piped the child.

  Kim

  Rudyard Kipling

• Midden, mid′en, n. a heap of ashes or dung (see also Kitchen-midden).

  Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M)

  Various

• Follet lived at the ramshackle hotel, owned by the ancient Dubois and managed, from roof to kitchen-midden, by Ching Po.

  The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story

  Various

• Whether they be remnants of an elevated sea-beach, or of some Indian ‘kitchen-midden,’ I dare not decide.

  At Last

  Charles Kingsley

• From the kitchen-midden to the pinnacle of all that is great to-day extends a chain not a link of which is weak.

  The Story of Ab

  Stanley Waterloo