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Mason-Dixon line (mā′sən dik′sən)

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

Etymology: after C. Mason & J. Dixon, who surveyed it, 1763-67

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