Meaning of mudsill | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The lowest sill of a structure, usually placed in or on the ground.
2. A particularly low or dirty place/state; the nadir of something (see rock bottom)
   figuratively
3. A person of low status or humble provenance.
   Southern-US, dated

Examples

“The Pre-Historic Era was the mudsill of human development.”

“1861, Theodore Winthrop, Washington as a Camp, The Following Is the Oath We were now miserable mercenaries, serving for low pay⟳ and rough rations. Read⟳ the Southern papers and you will see⟳ us described. “Mudsills,” — that, I believe⟳, is the technical word.”

“General Lee throw⟳ down his sword and surrender⟳ his invincible Southern legions to that poor little Northern mud-sill, a late tanner from Illinois!”

“Though the mudsill of the labor world, he whistles as he hoes, and no dark broodings or whispered conspirings mar the cheerful acceptance of the load⟳ he bears.”

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