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 

• MOLINE (noun)

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)