| 单词 | province line |
| 释义 | > as lemmasprovince line province line n. the boundary or border of a province; spec. †the line of latitude marking the border between the province of Lower Canada and the United States (obsolete). ΚΠ 1722 Jrnl. House of Representatives Massachusetts-Bay 74 They may have liberty to purchase some lands lying between the Towns of Oxford, Brimfield, Brookfield, and the Province line. 1809 E. A. Kendall Trav. Northern Parts U.S. III. 277 The bay itself..is intersected by what is called the province-line; that is, by the forty-fifth degree of north latitude, which is the southern boundary of Lower Canada. 1870 Rep. Commissioners Intercolonial Railway 25 A contract has been lately let in the Province of Quebec, for a line of railway..from Lennoxville to the Province line, where it connects with the Passumpsic Railway in the United States. 2004 M. N. Lurie & M. Mappen Encycl. New Jersey 71/3 Bounded by the Hudson and Hackensack rivers from the New York province line to Newark Bay. < as lemmas |
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