Moat

Definition: Moat

Moat

Noun

1. Ditch dug as a fortification and usually filled with water.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "moat" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Literature

Military

Mining

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MOAT

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Synonym: Moat

Conduit

Noun: conduit, channel, duct, watercourse, race; head race, tail race; abito, aboideau, aboiteau, bito; acequia, acequiador, acequiamadre; arroyo; adit, aqueduct, canal, trough, gutter, pantile; flume, ingate, runner; lock-weir, tedge; vena; dike, main, gully, moat, ditch, drain, sewer, culvert, cloaca, sough, kennel, siphon; piscina; pipe. (tube); funnel; tunnel. (passage); water pipe, waste pipe; emunctory, gully hole, artery, aorta, pore, spout, scupper; adjutage, ajutage; hose; gargoyle; gurgoyle; penstock, weir; flood gate, water gate; sluice, lock, valve; rose; waterworks.

Defense

Safeguard; (safety); balistraria; bunker, screen; (shelter); camouflage; (concealment); fortification; munition, muniment; trench, foxhole; bulwark, fosse, moat, ditch, entrenchment, intrenchment; kila; dike, dyke; parapet, sunk fence, embankment, mound, mole, bank, sandbag, revetment; earth work, field-work; fence, wall dead wall, contravallation; paling; (inclosure); palisade, haha, stockade, stoccado, laager, sangar; barrier, barricade; boom; portcullis, chevaux de frise; abatis, abattis, abbatis; vallum, circumvallation, battlement, rampart, scarp; escarp, counter-scarp; glacis, casemate; vallation, vanfos.

Furrow

Channel, gutter, trench, ditch, dike, dyke; moat, fosse, trough, kennel; ravine; (interval); tajo, thank-ye-ma'am.

Inclosure

Dike, dyke, ditch, fosse, moat.

Crosswords: Moat

Luke, um, that's not a bed, that's a raft, which is fine if you're gonna build a moat around the diner but (Gilmore Girls; writing credit: Povl Erik Carstensen; Sebastian Dorset)

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References

• Queens Moat Houses P.L.C.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

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Books

• And As I Rode by Granard's Moat (reference)

• Bride of Moat House (reference)

• Churchills Moat the Channel War 194 (reference)

• No moat no castle : poems (reference)

• QUEENS MOAT HOUSES PLC: Labor Productivity Benchmarks and International Gap Analysis (Labor Productivity Series) (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Looking at the outside walls and moat around Fort Jefferson. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Part of the Imperial Palace compound and moat in Tokyo, showing reflection of the building in the moat. Credit: Library of Congress.

The Moat and main entrance, Fort Monroe, Va. Credit: Library of Congress.

Moat and ramparts, Fort Monroe, Va. Credit: Library of Congress.

Moat Mountain and Intervale from prospect ledge, Kiarsarge [i.e. Mount Kearsarge], White Mountains. Credit: Library of Congress.

Moat and watch tower, Fort Marion, St. Augustine, Fla. Credit: Library of Congress.

The Moat, Fort Monroe, Va. Credit: Library of Congress.

West portal and moat, Fort Monroe, Va. Credit: Library of Congress.

Hacienda Salinas, moat. Credit: Library of Congress.

Intervale, Moat Mtn., and ledges from Mt. Surprise, New Hampshire. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Economic History

Cambodia

The principal temple, Angkor Wat, was built between 1112 and 1150 by Suryavarman II. With walls nearly one-half mile on each side, Angkor Wat portrays the Hindu cosmology with the central towers representing Mount Meru, home of the gods; the outer walls, the mountains enclosing the world; and the moat, the oceans beyond.Angkor Thom, the capital city built after the Cham sack of 1177, is surrounded by a 300-foot wide moat. (references)

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Beginning with "moat": Moat-holiday, moat-site.

Albanian

hendek me ujë, hendek i thellë, hendek (channel, chasm, dike, ditch, Fosse, gap, gutter, kerb, trench). (various references)

Arabic 

‏خندق مائي, ‏خندق (chase, dike, ditch, dyke, entrench, escarpment, retrench, trench). (various references)

Bulgarian 

заграждам с ров. (various references)

Chinese 

護城河 , 护城河, 淢 (swift current). (various references)

Czech

hradní příkop. (various references)

Danish

voldgrav (fosse of a fort), faestningsgrav (fosse of a fort). (various references)

Dutch

vestinggracht (fosse of a fort). (various references)

Farsi 

خندق کندن , خندق (Ditch, Graft, Sike, Trench, Trig), خاکریز (Bulwark, Fence, Levee, Weir). (various references)

Finnish

vesihauta (water-jump), vallihauta. (various references)

French

fossé de fortification, fossé, douves. (various references)

German

Stadtgraben. (various references)

Greek 

περικλείω με τάφρο, τάφροσ με νερό, τάφροσ (dike, ditch, trench), οχυρωματική τάφρος (fosse of a fort). (various references)

Hebrew 

תעלת מגן (trench). (various references)

Hungarian

várárok, sáncárok (bund ditch, foss, Fosse). (various references)

Italian

fosso di fortificazione (fosse of a fort), fossato (ditch, Fosse), fossa (ditch, Fosse, grave, hole, pit, scoop, trench). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

堀 (canal). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ほり (canal, constable), かんごう (checking and verifying), ごう (a little, actions committed in a former life, air-raid shelter, be proud, Buddhist karma, dugout, fine feathers, go, issue, long ages, number, threat, trench, writing brush). (various references)

Korean 

해자. (various references)

Manx

clash ushtey (watercourse). (various references)

Pig Latin

oatmay.(various references)

Portuguese

rodear com fosso, fosso (dike, ditch, dyke, fosse, pit, trench), defender com fosso. (various references)

Romanian

şanţ (channel, chase, dike, ditch, flute, Fosse, groove, gully, gutter, notch, rut, trench). (various references)

Russian 

ров с водой, ров (dike, ditch, trench), крепостной ров. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

rov (ditch, sap, trench), šanac (trench). (various references)

Spanish

foso (ditch, pit, socket, trench). (various references)

Swedish

vallgrav. (various references)

Thai

ล้อมรอบด้วยคูน้ำกว้าง, คูน้ำรอบปราสาทหรือเมือง. (various references)

Turkish

kale hendeği ile kuşatmak, kale hendeği, hendek (dike, ditch, Fosse, trench). (various references)

Ukrainian

рів (canal, dike, ditch, thorough, trench), обкопувати ровом (ditch). (various references)

fossa, vallum. (various references)

mota. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "moat": moated, moating, moatlike, moats. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Moat" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: joat, koat, mahat, maop, Maxat, Mayatt, meaht, meatr, mhot, mia, migat, mmat, moac, moad, moaf, Moah, moai, moap, moar, moas, Moatti, moaw, moax, moay, mocar, modag, Modart, moet, mofa, moft, mogad, mogar, Mohanty, Mohato, moig, moit, moite, moity, Moja, Mojar, molato, Momart, Monat, Mooa, Morat, mosat, mota, Motaki, motar, motat, Mouat, mouf, mout, movt, mowat, mowt, mox, moxa, muast, muat, muit, mulat, Mupata, murat, Mwat, Myatt, noat, noath, omad, omate, omet, smoat, woat. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: atom.

-1 letter: mat, moa, mot, oat, tam, tao, tom.

-2 letters: am, at, ma, mo, om, ta, to.

+1 letter: amort, atoms, atomy, magot, matzo, moats, stoma, toman.

+2 letters: almost, amatol, amount, atomic, comate, combat, diatom, fantom, fathom, format, maggot, magots, mahout, maloti, maltol, manito, marmot, mascot, matron, matzoh, matzos, matzot, moated, mortal, mortar, omenta, optima, outman, potman, smalto, somata, stomal, stomas, stroma, tampon, tomans, tomato, tombac, tombak, tombal, tomcat, wombat.

+3 letters: aftmost, amatols, amatory, amniote, amongst, amorist, amosite, amotion, amounts, anatomy, animato, antonym, apomict, apothem, atemoya, atomics, atomies, atomise, atomism, atomist, atomize, automan, automen, boatman, boatmen, bombast, bromate, bumboat, coadmit, cocomat, comates, comatic, comatik, combats, comitia, commata, compact, compart, diatoms, dogmata, doormat, dormant, fantoms, fathoms, flotsam, footman, formant, formate, formats, impasto, komatik, lomenta, madwort, maestro, maggots, maggoty, magneto, mahouts, maillot, maintop, maltols, maltose, mammoth, manihot, manitos, manitou, marcato, marmots, marplot, mascots, mastoid, matador, matelot, matrons, mattock, mattoid, matzohs, matzoon, matzoth, megaton, metazoa, metopae, moating, momenta, montage, montane, mordant, mortals, mortars, mortary, mozetta, mulatto, myomata, nonmeat, oatmeal, omental, optimal, osmatic, osteoma, ostmark, ottoman, outbeam, outmans, outswam, pantoum, phantom, pomatum, postman, potamic, ptomain, romaunt, scotoma, sfumato, smaltos, somatic, somital, stardom, stomach, stomata, stomate, stromal, subatom, tamarao, tambour, tampion, tampons, taproom, tearoom, telamon, teraohm, timpano, tinamou, tokamak, tokomak, tollman, tomback, tombacs, tombaks, tombola, tomcats, tomenta, tonearm, tongman, topmast, toxemia, transom, tritoma, tsardom, tumoral, twasome, tympano, tzardom, wombats.