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Meaning of moat in English:
moat
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noun
A deep, wide ditch surrounding a castle, fort, or town, typically filled with water and intended as a defence against attack.
‘Its present appearance, a picturesque ruin surrounded by a wide moat full of water lilies, masks its serious military purpose.’- ‘Besides a moat filled with rain water by way of the castle aqueducts, there were two walls, the lower outer and the higher inner.’
- ‘It had a drawbridge that was not over a moat filled with water, but a chasm that seemed to go to the center of the Earth.’
- ‘Think of a castle with a deep moat and a dozen cannon on the turrets.’
- ‘This would connect the castle to a roadway usually across a moat or ditch.’
- ‘Their models are forts and castles, moats and drawbridges.’
- ‘Around the building was a deep moat with crystal sparkling water.’
- ‘The moat was drained of water with only moss growing at the bottom and the outside walls crawling with thorny vines.’
- ‘For media owners around the globe, China must seem like a golden castle, surrounded by a deep moat full of crocodiles.’
- ‘They crushed each other as they swarmed across the moats and ditches between them and the packages.’
- ‘He cried in a voice that reverberated off the castle walls and sent the water in the moat into a series of ripples.’
- ‘She crept up to the base and was not surprised to find the place surrounded by a wide and probably deep moat.’
- ‘The large pond not only provided fresh fish for the city markets but also helped keep the moat around the walls filled with water.’
- ‘The products or services that have wide, sustainable moats around them are the ones that deliver rewards to investors.’
- ‘The moats have since filled in, but the interferometric radar is so subtle that it detects the change in the height of the former banks.’
- ‘It refers to the competitive advantage that a company has over other firms in its industry; the wider the moat, the more attractive the company.’
- ‘There the flowers are surrounded by thick tissue and, in some cases, even a protective moat filled with rainwater or the plants' own secretions.’
- ‘I thought of water, like a moat, but that was not possible.’
- ‘Archers were posted on the walls of the castle, easily able to pick off any enemies that wanted to try their luck at crossing the wide moat.’
- ‘A moat of icy water separates them from civilisation.’
verb
[with object]Surround (a place) with a moat.
‘He erected the castle on the top of a steep rock, and moated it round.’- ‘Archaeological excavations showed that the place had been moated.’
- ‘Here are the traces of an ancient large building, which had been moated round.’
- ‘There stands a barn upon some ground moated in.’
- ‘The Earl constructed a palace of green timber, moated around, and provided with turrets, portcullis, and drawbridge.’
- ‘A portion of their boundary is moated by the Leeds and Barnsley Canal.’
Origin
Late Middle English from Old French mote ‘mound’.
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