Definitions for mudsill

mudsill mud·sill

Spelling: [muhd-sil]
IPA: /ˈmʌdˌsɪl/

Mudsill is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 112 anagrams from letters in mudsill (dillmsu).

Definitions for mudsill

noun

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

Origin of mudsill

First recorded in 1675-85; mud + sill

Examples for mudsill

We push below this mudsill the derelicts and half-men, whom we hate and despise, and seek to build above it—Democracy!

The insurgent moral sense of a mudsill and shopkeeping North had at last found voice and vent.

This mudsill of the world has learned to read and write and begun to think.

The mudsill Sumner was too unpolished to think of clubbing the brains out of the gentleman Brooks.

He was skillful with his hands, and must therefore be a "mudsill."

I was transformed into a mudsill and Northern hireling last spring.'

Where can you scare up names like them among your mudsill folks?

When used for wharves, it, however, becomes a veritable 'mudsill.'

A mudsill like me trying to push in and help receive an awful grandee like Edward J. Billings?

The Negro is the mudsill of the social and industrial South to-day.

Word Value for mudsill
Scrable

10

Words with friends

14

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