moat

Definition von moat im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch: An aspect of a business which makes it more "defensible" from competitors, either because of the nature of its products, services, franchise or other reason; A deep, wide defensive ditch, normally filled with water, surrounding a fortified habitation; a ditch on the outside of a fortress wall; {n} a canal or ditch made round a castle; {v} to surround or secure with a moat; To surround with a moat; ditch dug as a fortification and usually filled with water; A deep trench usually filled with water that surrounded a castle; the gap between snow and ice and a rock wall; A moat is a deep, wide channel dug round a place such as a castle and filled with water, in order to protect the place from attack; Nickname for the gutter; NLANR Measurement and Operations Analysis Team, at SDSC; Measurement Operations and Analysis Team A research team based in the USA; The ditch surrounding a castle, filled with water when the castle was on a stream or river, but most often just a dry ditch When wet, they did not contain alligators, but there was other revolting stuff in them; – narrow, standing collar; The gutter; A deep defensive ditch that surrounds the wall of a fortified town or castle and is usually filled with water; {i} protective body of water surrounding a town or fortress, wide trench filled with water that surrounds a castle; A deep, wide defensive ditch, normally filled with water surrounding a fortified habitation; Douve A deep trench dug around a castle to impede attack from the surrounding land It could be either left dry or filled with water Water filled moats made it more difficult for attackers to dig tunnels; Defence ditch, usually filled with water, on the outside of a fortress wall; A trench filled with water dug around the castle It was often filled with sharp and dangerous objects like rusty metal and glass Inhabitants of the area often also threw refuse in it, contributing to the stink of the area; A deep trench around the rampart of a castle or other fortified place, sometimes filled with water; a ditch; [arch] A ditch or trench around a fortified castle; usually not filled with water Equivalent term used relative to ancient fortresses is fosse
moated: protected by a deep wide ditch usually filled with water
moats: plural of moat

moat

Türkische aussprache

mōt

Synonyme

fosse, canal, channel, gully, trench

Aussprache

/ˈmōt/ /ˈmoʊt/

Etymologie

[ 'mOt ] (noun.) 14th century. From Middle English mote, from Old French mote (“mound, embankment”) (compare also Old French motte (“hillock, lump, clod, turf”), from Medieval Latin mota (“a mound, hill, a hill on which a castle is built, castle, embankment, turf”), of Germanic origin, perhaps via Frankish *mot, *motta (“mud, peat, bog, turf”), from Proto-Germanic *mutô, *mudraz, *muþraz (“dirt, filth, mud”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mut- (“dark, dirty”). Cognate with Alemannic German Mott, Mutte (“peat, turf”), Bavarian Mott (“peat, turf”), Dutch dialectal mot (“dust, fine sand”), Eastern Frisian mut (“grit, litter, humus”), Swedish muta (“to drizzle”), Old English mot (“speck, particle”). More at mote, mud, smut.