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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 mud·sill /-ˌsɪl/
 底梁

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Mud·sill n.
 1. 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.
 2. Fig.: A person of the lowest stratum of society; -- a term of opprobrium or contempt. [Southern U. S.]