Mudsill

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This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The lowest sill, block, or timber supporting a building, located at or below ground level.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The lowest sill of a structure, usually placed in or on the ground.
  • n. A particularly low or dirty place/state; the nadir of something (see rock bottom)
  • n. A person of low status or humble provenance.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. 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.
  • n. Fig.: A person of the lowest stratum of society; -- a term of opprobrium or contempt.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The lowest sill of a structure, resting on the ground.
  • n. A lowborn, ignorant, contemptible person.
  • n. Specifically, the bed-piece or bottom timber of a dam placed across the stream and usually resting on rocks or in mud.
  • Word Usage
    "All of this -- but little understood within a very few years -- has been of late made generally intelligible on this side of the border, thanks, perhaps, as much to Mr. Hammond's word 'mudsill' as to any other cause."
    Variant
    sill