Mason–Dixon Line
/meɪs(ə)nˈdɪks(ə)n
/noun
(In the US) the boundary between Maryland and Pennsylvania, taken as the northern limit of the slave-owning states before the abolition of slavery.
Origin
Named after Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, the 18th-century English astronomers who surveyed it in 1763–7.
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