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groundsill

Today it means: A timber beam used as the foundation for a building. Full definition →

Middle English groundselle

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Middle English · inherited fromgroundselle
English todaygroundsill

From Middle English groundselle, ground sille, equivalent to ground + sill.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.