On 'skirmish-line'

[Mark Kohut]

If, like me, you did not know exactly what skirmish-line might mean/connote......led by the text
where it is NOT where the Force is, not perhaps the War's Front, which it isn't. A search thru
uses via Google Books shows it usually means the line where advance soldiers/troops met some
resistance [had a skirmish].  
 
So, who among us does not leap associatively to the Mason & Dixon line conceptually
 
And, there is this: "Cyprian had been closely scanning the map with a Coddington lens. "Here
then, the line-segment of interest seems to be labeled 'Critical Line'---Yashmeen, isn't that
Riemann talk?" 
"She looked. "Except that this one's horizontal, and drawn on a grid of latitude and longitude, instead
of real against imaginary values.".......AtD, of course, pp 936-937
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