moline, a. and n. Her.
(məʊˈlaɪn)
[Prob. repr. AF. *moliné, f. molin (mod.F. moulin) mill: see mill n.1 and -ee.]
A. adj. Of or resembling the expanded and curved extremities of a mill-rind; esp. in cross moline, a cross each of the arms of which terminates in two expanded and curved branches resembling the extremities of a mill-rind.
| 1562 Leigh Armorie 188 b, He beareth ermin a crosse moline Or. 1610 J. Guillim Heraldry ii. vii. 70 The Field is Azure, a Crosse Moline Pierced Losenge-waies. 1688 R. Holme Armoury iii. xvi. (Roxb.) 90/1 A cleever with a moline cuting end. 1761 Brit. Mag. II. 532 Azure, a cross moline, argent. 1868 Cussans Her. (1893) 118 There are twelve families of Miller who bear Crosses-Moline..and none who bear Millstones or Mill-rinds. |
| ellipt. 1864 Boutell Her., Hist. & Pop. vi. 29 The Cross Patonce..expands more widely than the Moline. |
B. n.
1. = cross moline.
| 1777 Porny Elem. Heraldry, Dict., Moline..is used in Heraldry to denote a Cross which turns round both ways at all the extremities. 1823 Crabb Technol. Dict., Molines. |
2. = mill-rind (Ogilvie 1882).
Hence † molined a. rare = moline a.
| 1688 R. Holme Armoury iii. 342/1 Let it be called a Mill Rinde molined, because the ends turn like the Cross Moline. |