Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The site of a dunghill or muck-heap; a place where dung is stored.

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Examples

  • ( "Muck" Andrew earned his nickname by disputing 30 years in court over a "middenstead" - a dung heap.)

    A City's Shining Moment Helps Shape Our Heritag 2003

  • "Put them in the malt-kiln," said M'Aulay; "and keep the breadth of the middenstead between them and the M'Donalds; they are but unfriends to each other."

    A Legend of Montrose Walter Scott 1801

  • “Put them in the malt-kiln,” said M’Aulay; “and keep the breadth of the middenstead between them and the M’Donalds; they are but unfriends to each other.”

    A Legend of Montrose 2008

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