mudsill

[ muhd-sil ]

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of mudsill¹

First recorded in 1675–85; mud + sill

Example Sentences

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

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

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

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

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

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