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mudsill
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mudsillnoun
The lowest sill of a structure, usually placed in or on the ground.
mudsillnoun
A particularly low or dirty place/state; the nadir of something (see rock bottom)
"The Pre-Historic Era represented the mudsill of human development."
Etymology: "1685, 'lowest sill of a house,' from mud + sill. The word entered U.S. political history in a speech by James M. Hammond of South Carolina, March 4, 1858, in U.S. Senate, alluding to the very mudsills of society, and the term subsequently was embraced by Northern workers in the pre-Civil War sectional rivalry." (OED, 2007)
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mudsill
A sill plate or sole plate in construction and architecture is the bottom horizontal member of a wall or building to which vertical members are attached. The word "plate" is typically omitted in America and carpenters speak simply of the "sill". Other names are ground plate, ground sill, groundsel, night plate, and midnight sill.Sill plates are usually composed of lumber but can be any material. The timber at the top of a wall is often called a top plate, pole plate, mudsill, wall plate or simply "the plate".
Webster Dictionary
Mudsillnoun
the lowest sill of a structure, usually embedded in the soil; the lowest timber of a house; also, that sill or timber of a bridge which is laid at the bottom of the water. See Sill
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of mudsill in Chaldean Numerology is: 6
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of mudsill in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
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