middenstead
(ˈmɪd(ə)nstɛd)
[f. midden + stead. Cf. MDa. m{obar}ddingstede (Kalkar).]
The place where a dunghill is formed; a laystall.
| 1607 Burgh Rec. Glasgow (1876) I. 273 To tak in the stanis of the vttir syd of his midinge sted. 1654 Manch. Court Leet Rec. (1887) IV. 131 Mr. Nicholas Mosley of Collyhurst for not repaireing the middinge stidd in the Toadlane. 1860–1 F. Nightingale Nursing ii. (ed. 2) 2 One of the most common causes of disease in towns is having..middensteads close to the houses. |
| fig. 1889 Swinburne Study B. Jonson i. 77 A very middenstead of falsehood and of filth. |