Moat

[moat]

Not many houses these days have a moat it's a trench dug outside a castle and is usually full of water. A moat means "Keep out!"

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A deep trench around the rampart of a castle or other fortified place, sometimes filled with water; a ditch.

Noun
ditch dug as a fortification and usually filled with water


n.
A deep trench around the rampart of a castle or other fortified place, sometimes filled with water; a ditch.

v. t.
To surround with a moat.


Moat

Moat , n. [OF. mote hill, dike, bank, F. motte clod, turf: cf. Sp. & Pg. mota bank or mound of earth, It. motta clod, LL. mota, motta, a hill on which a fort is built, an eminence, a dike, Prov. G. mott bog earth heaped up; or perh. F. motte, and OF. mote, are from a LL. p.p. of L. movere to move (see Move). The name of moat, properly meaning, bank or mound, was transferred to the ditch adjoining: cf. F. dike and ditch.] (Fort.) A deep trench around the rampart of a castle or other fortified place, sometimes filled with water; a ditch.

Moat

Moat, v. t. To surround with a moat. Dryden.

A deep trench around the rampart of a castle or other fortified place, sometimes filled with water; a ditch.

To surround with a moat.

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