Moat
[məʊt] or [mot]
Definition
(noun.) ditch dug as a fortification and usually filled with water.
Checker: Marty--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Ditch, fosse, graff.
Typist: Sol
Definition
n. a deep trench round a castle or fortified place sometimes filled with water: (obs.) a hill or mound.—v.t. to surround with a moat.—adj. Moat′ed.
Typist: Shirley
Examples
- Around the exterior wall was a deep moat, supplied with water from a neighbouring rivulet. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- At this moment Gurth appeared on the opposite side of the moat with the mules. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- These shoes, it ran, were dug up in the moat of Holdernesse Hall. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
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