mudsill

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Определение mudsill в Английский Язык Английский Язык словарь

A particularly low or dirty place/state; the nadir of something (see rock bottom)

The Pre-Historic Era represented the mudsill of human development..

The lowest sill of a structure, usually placed in or on the ground

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

A person of the lowest stratum of society; a term of opprobrium or contempt

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Этимология

() "1685, 'lowest sill of a house,' from mud + sill (q.v.). 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)