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Mason-Dixon Line Definition


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Mason-Dixon Line
noun
    1. The boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland, later thought of as separating the free Northern states from the slave states of the South.
Etymology: 18c: named after Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon who surveyed it.



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