kitchen midden

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noun
  1. a mound consisting of shells of edible mollusks and other refuse, marking the site of a prehistoric human habitation.

Origin of kitchen midden

1
1860–65; translation of Danish kökkenmödding

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How to use kitchen midden in a sentence

  • 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
  • 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
  • Finally on the Whitby coast on the south side of the abbey a huge kitchen-midden was discovered.

    Woman under Monasticism | Lina Eckenstein
  • In many places the kitchen midden accumulations were so obvious that it was impossible to ignore them entirely.

British Dictionary definitions for kitchen midden

kitchen midden

noun
  1. archaeol the site of a large mound of domestic refuse marking a prehistoric settlement: usually including bones, potsherds, seashells, etc

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