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What is a mudsill?

What is a mudsill? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The lowest sill of a structure, usually placed in or on the ground.
  2. (figuratively) A particularly low or dirty place/state; the nadir of something (see rock bottom)
  3. (dated, US, Southern US) A person of low status or humble provenance.
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Because black slaves provided a mudsill class, all whites were equal.
The product is a strip of tacky material applied in a horizontal manner to the inside of the foundation, just below the mudsill, and also around piers, just below the pad.
The mudsill Sumner was too unpolished to think of clubbing the brains out of the gentleman Brooks.
This mudsill of the world has learned to read and write and begun to think.
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.
Metal mudsill connectors rising from the piers were joined to pressure-treated 4-by-6 joists.

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