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mudsill
noun 3
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1MUDSILL + NOUN
development, human
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noun
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)
The Pre-Historic Era was the mudsill of human development.
3
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.
General Lee throw down his sword and surrender his invincible Southern legions to that poor little Northern mud-sill, a late tanner from Illinois!
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The Pre-Historic Era was the mudsill of human development.
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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 describe
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General Lee throw down his sword and surrender his invincible Southern legions to that poor little Northern mud-sill, a late tanner from Illinois!
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