Groundsill

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The horizontal timber nearest the ground in the frame of a building.
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  • n. A timber beam used as the foundation for a building.
  • n. The lowest beam of a door-frame; the threshold.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The timber of a building which lies next to the ground; the ground-plate; the sill.
  • n. In mining, the bottom piece of a wooden gallery-frame.
    • Word Usage
    "Peter; 'we'll drink to its memory -- (Hout! the heart's at the mouth o' that ill-faur'd bit stoup already!) -- it brought a rent, reckoning from the crawstep to the groundsill, that ye might ca 'fourteen punds a year, forby the laigh cellar that was let to Lucky Littleworth.'"
     
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