英语词汇“mason-dixon line”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	mason-dixon line
释义	Mason-Dixon Line in British English or Mason and Dixon Line (ˈmeɪsən ˈdɪksən) 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 Mason-Dixon line in American English (ˈmeɪsənˈdɪksən) boundary line between Pa. & Md., regarded, before the Civil War, as separating the free states from the slavestates or, now, the North from the South : also Mason and Dixon's line Word origin after C. Mason & J. Dixon, who surveyed it, 1763-67 Examples of 'Mason-Dixon Line' in a sentence Mason-Dixon Line "He put his hands on his hips, pushing his jacket aside in a gesture that was as menacing as they got south of the Mason-Dixon line. Lisa Scottoline LEGAL TENDER (2001)
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Mason-Dixon Line in British English