moat
IPA: mˈoʊt
noun
- A deep, wide defensive ditch, normally filled with water, surrounding a fortified habitation.
- (business, figurative) An aspect of a business which makes it more "defensible" from competitors, because of the nature of its products, services or franchise or for some other reason.
- A circular lowland between a resurgent dome and the walls of the caldera surrounding it.
- (meteorology) A clear ring outside the eyewall of a tropical cyclone.
- (obsolete) A hill or mound.
- A surname.
verb
- (transitive) To surround with a moat.
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Examples of "moat" in Sentences
- There are many moats near the trees.
- A drawbridge crosses the moat at the entrance.
- The moat and some ruins of the castle survive.
- The moats around the hammocks protect the trees.
- The house was demolished and the moat filled in in 1816.
- His father was the owner of the Moat Colliery in Tipton.
- The moat, the fundament and the weir system are still visible.
- The king wisely had the computer scientist thrown in the moat.
- A moat continues the line of the ditch to the south of The Slad.
- There was originally a drawbridge over the moat in the north east.
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