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What is a mudsill?

What is a mudsill? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The lowest sill of a structure, usually placed in or on the ground.
  2. (figuratively) A particularly low or dirty place/state; the nadir of something (see rock bottom)
  3. (dated, US, Southern US) A person of low status or humble provenance.
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Hairline cracks where stucco meets the mudsill are likely in a quake, but they're not necessarily a problem.
Where can you scare up names like them among your mudsill folks?
A mudsill like me trying to push in and help receive an awful grandee like Edward J. Billings?
This mudsill of the world has learned to read and write and begun to think.
Though the mudsill of the labor world, he whistles as he hoes, and no dark broodings or whispered conspirings mar the cheerful acceptance of the load he bears.
Because black slaves provided a mudsill class, all whites were equal.

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