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   Mason–Dixon Line

   /meɪs(ə)nˈdɪks(ə)n/

   noun

   • 1. (in the US) the boundary between Maryland and Pennsylvania, taken as the northern limit of the slave-owning states before the abolition of slavery.

   Word Origin named after Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, the 18th-century English astronomers who surveyed it in 1763–7.

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