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MOLINE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Moline mean?
• MOLINE (noun)
The noun MOLINE has 1 sense:
1. a town in northwest Illinois on the Mississippi River
Familiarity information: MOLINE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A town in northwest Illinois on the Mississippi River
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
town (an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city)
Holonyms ("Moline" is a part of...):
IL; Ill.; Illinois; Land of Lincoln; Prairie State (a midwestern state in north-central United States)
Context examples
Close behind us is the moline cross of the gallant William Molyneux, and beside it the bloody chevrons of the Norfork Woodhouses, with the amulets of the Musgraves of Westmoreland.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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