Crossword clues for middles
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Middlings \Mid"dlings\, n. pl.
A combination of the coarser parts of ground wheat the finest bran, separated from the fine flour and coarse bran in bolting; -- formerly regarded as valuable only for feed; but now, after separation of the bran, used for making the best quality of flour. Middlings contain a large proportion of gluten.
In the southern and western parts of the United States, the portion of the hog between the ham and the shoulder; bacon; -- called also middles.
--Bartlett.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of middle English)
Usage examples of "middles".
We each had coils of line, and stoutly tied swag-nets, and we had all our limbs free for flying because of the stout leathern harnesses round our middles, to hang our bags from and our other gear.
From our middles hung our hempen nets bulging with ten times our weight in demon-loot.
Their leader had a rifle slung over his shoulder—the rest were armed only with swords, lances, and the thick coils of rope about their middles which served frontier hunters for both a weapon and a snare.
They wore loin cloths of brightly dyed fabrics with wide sashes forming corselets about their slender middles, from which gleamed the gem-set hilts of their claw knives, the possession of which proved their adulthood.
The four men who emerged all had their blasters or riot stun-rifles at ready, and the sights of those weapons were trained at the middles of the Free Traders.