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moat
[ moht ]
noun
- a deep, wide trench, usually filled with water, surrounding the rampart of a fortified place, as a town or a castle.
- any similar trench, as one used for confining animals in a zoo.
moat
/ məʊt /
noun
- a wide water-filled ditch surrounding a fortified place, such as a castle
verb
- tr to surround with or as if with a moat
a moated grange
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Example Sentences
But over the years, cloistered in their mountain keep, complete with moat, Bender and Patton became ever more reclusive.
The brain is a castle and this is its moat, as experts have described it.
Thinking to escape and summon assistance from the cantonment, Douglas mounted the wall and leaped into the moat.
The house itself was built nearly two hundred years earlier and was later surrounded by a moat as a further means of defense.
But the Scots tower proved useless, for its wheels stuck in the mud of the moat, and it could not be got up to the wall.
He'll immediately throw down his bunch of flowers and dive despairingly into the moat.
An ornamental lake indicates where once was the moat, but the outlines of the walls are shown only by grass-covered ridges.
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