Meaning Of The Word Mason-Dixon Line
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Mason-Dixon Line Meaning
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What's The Definition Of Mason-Dixon Line?
Mason-Dixon Line in British English
boundary line between Pa. & Md., regarded, before the Civil War, as separating the free states from the slave states or, now, the North from the South noun: the state boundary between Maryland and Pennsylvania: surveyed between 1763 and 1767 by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon; popularly regarded as the dividing line between North and South, esp between the free and the slave states before the American Civil |
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