1. Or possibly, “garbage dumps; dunghills.”

2. Brandling definition is - a small yellowish earthworm (Eisenia foetida) with brownish purple rings found in dunghills and used as bait by anglers.

3. There were frowzy fields, and cow-houses, and dunghills, and dustheaps, and ditches, and gardens, and summer-houses, and carpet-beating grounds, at the very door of the Railway.