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

  • A city of northwest Illinois on the Mississippi River across from Davenport, Iowa. It developed as a major producer of farm implements and tractors.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The crossed iron sunk in the center of the upper millstone, for receiving the spindle fixed in the lower stone; a mill-rynd.
  • In heraldry, resembling a Moline.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The crossed iron that supports the upper millstone by resting on the spindle; a millrind.
  • noun (Her.) a cross each arm of which is divided at the end into two rounded branches or divisions.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a town in northwest Illinois on the Mississippi River

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Examples

  • MOLINE -- A registered sex offender wanted on three arrest warrants fought with a Moline police officer Monday and ran, but later was apprehended.

    QCOnline Metro News 2010

  • MOLINE - A dozen newly designated Master Teachers will be honored at a 20th annual awards program April 30, at the i wireless Center in Moline.

    QCOnline Metro News 2010

  • MOLINE -- A registered sex offender wanted on three arrest warrants fought with a Moline police officer Monday and ran, but later was apprehended.

    QCOnline Metro News 2010

  • MOLINE -- Moline city administrator Lew Steinbrecher has named interim fire chief Ron Miller permanently to the post.

    QCOnline Metro News 2010

  • MOLINE -- The darkness gave Moline police officer Heidi Nelson's squad car partial obscurity as it was parked on the shoulder under the Avenue of the Cities overpass on Interstate 74, Iowa-bound.

    QCOnline Metro News 2010

  • MOLINE -- A Wisconsin development and construction firm is interested in building a key piece of a city-planned development along the Moline riverfront.

    QCOnline Metro News 2010

  • MOLINE -- City staff want to create a micro-enterprise loan program to expand small business in Moline.

    QCOnline Metro News 2010

  • MOLINE -- The darkness gave Moline police officer Heidi Nelson's squad car partial obscurity as it was parked on the shoulder under the Avenue of the Cities overpass on Interstate 74, Iowa-bound.

    QCOnline Metro News 2010

  • MOLINE -- Bethany Baptist Church, one block from John Deere Road on 7th Street in Moline, will present '' The Messiah in the Passover Seder '' at 5 p.m. Sunday.

    QCOnline Metro News 2009

  • MOLINE -- Despite a whirlwind of changes at Christ Anglican Church in Moline, church members still find time to help hurricane victims.

    QCOnline Metro News 2009

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