Noun
mudsill (plural mudsills)
- The lowest sill of a structure, usually placed in or on the ground.
- (figuratively) A particularly low or dirty place/state; the nadir of something (see rock bottom)
- The Pre-Historic Era was the mudsill of human development.
- (dated, southern US) A person of low status or humble provenance.
- 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.
- 1861, Theodore Winthrop, Washington as a Camp, The Following Is the Oath
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