mudsill

[ muhd-sil ]

/ ˈmʌdˌsɪl /

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noun

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

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Also called footplate.

Origin of mudsill

First recorded in 1675–85; mud + sill

Words nearby mudsill

mud pie, mud pot, mudpuppy, mudra, mud room, mudsill, mudskipper, mud slide, mudslinging, mud snake, mudspate

How to use mudsill in a sentence

The mudsill Sumner was too unpolished to think of clubbing the brains out of the gentleman Brooks.
Miss Ravenel's conversion from secession to loyalty|J. W. de Forest
The Negro is the mudsill of the social and industrial South to-day.
Following the Color Line|Ray Stannard Baker
The insurgent moral sense of a mudsill and shopkeeping North had at last found voice and vent.
Charles Sumner Centenary|Archibald H. Grimke
We push below this mudsill the derelicts and half-men, whom we hate and despise, and seek to build above it—Democracy!
Darkwater|W. E. B. Du Bois

A mudsill like me trying to push in and help receive an awful grandee like Edward J. Billings?
Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven|Mark Twain