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Moat :: Moat (v. t.) To surround with a moat.

Ditch :: Ditch (n.) A trench made in the earth by digging, particularly a trench for draining wet land, for guarding or fencing inclosures, or for preventing an approach to a town or fortress. In the latter sense, it is called also a moat or a fosse..

Cunette :: Cunette (n.) A drain trench, in a ditch or moat; -- called also cuvette..

Foreland :: Foreland (n.) A piece of ground between the wall of a place and the moat.

Coffer :: Coffer (n.) A trench dug in the bottom of a dry moat, and extending across it, to enable the besieged to defend it by a raking fire..

Moate :: Moate (v. i.) To void the excrement, as a bird; to mute..

Graffage :: Graffage (n.) The scarp of a ditch or moat.

Fosse :: Fosse (n.) A ditch or moat.

Ponvolant :: Ponvolant (n.) A kind of light bridge, used in sieges, for surprising a post or outwork which has but a narrow moat; a flying bridge..

Moat :: Moat (n.) A deep trench around the rampart of a castle or other fortified place, sometimes filled with water; a ditch..

Rundel :: Rundel (n.) A moat with water in it; also, a small stream; a runlet..

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