The cross moline (also cross anchory, French croix ancrée "anchor cross") is a Christian cross, constituting a kind of heraldic cross. == History == The name derives from its shape, which resembles a millrind, the iron clamp of the upper millstone, moline being the Old French for a mill.
The cross moline (also cross anchory, French croix ancrée "anchor cross") is a Christian cross, constituting a kind of heraldic cross. == History == The name derives from its shape, which resembles a millrind, the iron clamp of the upper millstone, moline being the Old French for a mill.
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