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plural middles
A centre, midpoint. examples
The part between the beginning and the end. quotations examples
Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand. We spent consider'ble money getting 'em reset, and then a swordfish got into the pound and tore the nets all to slathers, right in the middle of the squiteague season.
1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 1, in Mr. Pratt's Patients
(cricket) The middle stump. examples
The central part of a human body; the waist. quotations examples
If I have a diet plan and stick to it, it is easy for me to have control over my middle.
2012, Caroline Moore, Fasting In A Fast World
(grammar) The middle voice. examples
(politics) the center of the political spectrum. examples
not comparable
Located in the middle; in between. examples
Central. examples
(grammar) Pertaining to the middle voice. examples
third-person singular simple present middles, present participle middling, simple past and past participle middled
(obsolete) To take a middle view of. quotations
And now, to middle the matter between both, it is pity, that the man they favour has not that sort of merit which a person of a mind so delicate as that of Miss Harlowe might reasonably expect in a husband.
1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter XXVII”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […]
(obsolete, nautical, transitive) To double (a rope) into two equal portions; to fold in the middle.