moat, fosse
(noun) ditch dug as a fortification and usually filled with water
Source: WordNet® 3.1
moat (plural moats)
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, either because of the nature of its products, services, franchise or other reason.
A circular lowland between a resurgent dome and the walls of the caldera surrounding it.
(obsolete) A hill or mound.
• fosse
moat (third-person singular simple present moats, present participle moating, simple past and past participle moated)
(transitive) To surround with a moat.
• Amto, Mato, Mota, TMAO, atmo, atom, mota, toma
Source: Wiktionary
Moat, n. Etym: [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.)
Definition: A deep trench around the rampart of a castle or other fortified place, sometimes filled with water; a ditch.
Moat, v. t.
Definition: To surround with a moat. Dryden.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
5 April 2025
(noun) an unofficial association of people or groups; “the smart set goes there”; “they were an angry lot”
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
