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Definition of Moated

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 Moat, v. t. To surround with a moat. --Dryden.
moat
Ditch Ditch (?; 224), n.; pl. Ditches. [OE. dich, orig. the same word as dik. See Dike.] 1. A trench made in the earth by digging, particularly a trench for draining wet land, for guarding or fencing inclosures, or for preventing an approach to a town or fortress. In the latter sense, it is called also a moat or a fosse. 2. Any long, narrow receptacle for water on the surface of the earth.

Meaning of Moated from wikipedia

- Mandalay in Myanmar; Chiang Mai in Thailand and Huế in Vietnam. The only moated fort ever built in Australia was Fort Lytton in Brisbane. As Brisbane was...
- A moated settlement (環濠集落) (English: moated settlements, ditched settlements, ditch-enclosed settlements ) is a human settlement (village) surrounded...
- part of its defences. It can be entirely surrounded by water-filled moats (moated castle) or natural waterbodies such as island castles in a river or offs****...
- (156.4 acres). The earthwork remains of a medieval manor house (Lawn Farm moated site, a scheduled monument) are within the area. It is thought to have once...
- pronunciation: [ˈdiːte]) encomp****es the sixth through the ninth circles of ****. Moated by the river Styx, the fortified city encloses the whole of Lower or Nether...
- Down Barns Moated Site is a Scheduled Ancient Monument in Northolt in the London Borough of Ealing. It is the site of a medieval manor house, which does...
- Bodiam Castle is a 14th-century moated castle near Robertsbridge in East Sus****....
- to support charities. The house is a Grade II* listed building and the moated site is a scheduled monument. The house was built in the late 16th century...
- and chequered history, from the days of the Great North Wood to ancient moated house, sewage farm, farming, the war years, civil defence, allotments, wasteland...
- monuments including barrow burial mounds, Roman camps, castles and medieval moated sites. Grade I listed buildings in Staffordshire Grade II* listed buildings...