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mudsill

[ muhd-sil ]

noun

  1. the lowest sill of a structure, usually placed in or on the ground.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of mudsill1

First recorded in 1675–85; mud + sill
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Example Sentences

The mudsill Sumner was too unpolished to think of clubbing the brains out of the gentleman Brooks.

The Negro is the mudsill of the social and industrial South to-day.

The insurgent moral sense of a mudsill and shopkeeping North had at last found voice and vent.

We push below this mudsill the derelicts and half-men, whom we hate and despise, and seek to build above it—Democracy!

A mudsill like me trying to push in and help receive an awful grandee like Edward J. Billings?

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