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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • A city of central Pennsylvania on the eastern slopes of the Allegheny Mountains east of Pittsburgh. It was laid out in 1849 by the Pennsylvania Railroad as a switching point for locomotives used to cross the mountains.

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  • noun a town in central Pennsylvania

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