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Mason And Dixon Line meaning in English

Meaning of Mason And Dixon Line in English

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Mason And Dixon Line pronunciation in English

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Mason And Dixon Line

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Noun

1. mason and dixon line, mason and dixon's line, mason-dixon line

the boundary between Maryland and Pennsylvania; symbolic dividing line between North and South before the American Civil War

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Mason And Dixon Line

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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 War

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Mason And Dixon Line

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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
: also Mason and Dixon's line

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