moat

• A moat, filled with bushes, is on a level with the terrace, and beyond the moat is a wall. —  Riviera Towns
• When it was raised the castle was practically a little island and very hard for enemies to attack On one side of the moat was a large wood, and here Arthur spent a great deal of his time. —  King Arthur and His Knights
• To possess ourselves of these muskets, and to heave them into the moat was the work of but a few minutes; and when this was done I went up on to the platform, and with my own hands effectually spiked every one of the guns. —  The Log of a Privateersman
• Pity that the moat was allowed to run dry and the harmless fiction exposed Sidenote: A WAGER Sir John Lade, diminutive associate of George IV. —  Highways ; Byways in Sussex
• The distance to the moat was appreciably nearer, compared with the window of the room he had just left, but the distance was still considerable As Caldew turned from the window, with the reluctant conviction that he had been nursing an untenable theory, a last ray of sunshine shot through the open window, causing the dust he had raised by his entrance to quiver and gyrate like a host of mad bacilli dancing a jig. —  The Hand in the Dark

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