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† ˈmiddleward Obs.
[f. middle a. + -ward; in sense 2 perh. f. ward n. as in rearward, vanward. Cf. midward.]
1. The middle part of anything.
c1420Pallad. on Husb. viii. 135 All the rynde is for this nothing fyne, Then oonly take the tender myddelwardes.
2. The middle body of an army.
a1400Morte Arth. 1988 The kynge..Demenys the medylwarde menskfully hyme selfene. 1577–87Holinshed Chron. III. 828/1 The earle himself led the middle-ward. 1665Manley Grotius' Low C. Warres 673 Three Battels..of which the Middleward being double fill'd the whole breadth of the Shore. |