midden
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The project overall is called the Super Midden, based on midden - a word mostly used by archaeologists to describe ancient rubbish dumps.
From BBC • Jul. 16, 2025
The Central Intelligence Agency’s Manhattan-based “book club” office was run by an emigre from Romania named George Midden, who managed to send 10 million books behind the Iron Curtain.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 1, 2025
Kelley was speaking at Maine’s best-known site, the Whaleback Shell Midden State Historic Site, during a recent conference she organized to discuss the vulnerable shell heaps.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 3, 2017
Dr. Kelley was speaking at Maine’s best-known site, the Whaleback Shell Midden State Historic Site, during a recent conference she organized to discuss the vulnerable shell heaps.
From New York Times • Oct. 19, 2017
It was a pleasant coat when it was new, Midden, but we are old friends now—it and me.
From The Three Mulla-mulgars by De la Mare, Walter