midden-pant

noun

noun

Etymology From midden (“dung heap”) (itself from Old Norse) + possibly Cumbric pant (“hollow, depression”).

Cumbria, Yorkshire, Dialectal, Obsolete hollow into which the drainage of the manure-heap flowed

The midden-pant was the hollow into which the drainage of the manure-heap flowed.1883, Thomas Rowland Powell, Archaeologia Cambrensis:

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