What does MOAT mean?

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. moat, fossenoun

    ditch dug as a fortification and usually filled with water

Wiktionary

  1. moatnoun

    A deep, wide defensive ditch, normally filled with water, surrounding a fortified habitation.

  2. moatnoun

    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.

  3. Etymology: From mote, from mote (compare also motte, from mota, of origin, perhaps via *, from mutô, from (s)mut-. Cognate with Mott, Mutte, Mott, dialectal mot, mut, muta, mot. More at mote, mud, smut.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Moatnoun

    A canal of water round a house or castle for defence.

    Etymology: motte, French, a mound; mota, low Latin.

    The castle I found of good strength, having a great moat round about it, the work of a noble gentleman, of whose unthrifty son he had bought it. Philip Sidney, b. ii.

    The fortress thrice himself in person storm’d;
    Your valour bravely did th’ assault sustain,
    And fill’d the moats and ditches with the slain. Dryden.

    No walls were yet, nor fence, nor mote, nor mound,
    Nor drum was heard. John Dryden, Ovid.

  2. To Moatverb

    To surround with canals by way of defence.

    Etymology: motter, French, from the noun.

    I will presently to St. Luke’s; there at the moated Grange resides this dejected Mariana. William Shakespeare, Meas. for Measure.

    An arm of Lethe, with a gentle flow,
    The palace moats, and o’er the pebbles creeps,
    And with soft murmurs calls the coming sleeps. Dryden.

    He sees he can hardly approach greatness, but, as a moated castle, he must first pass the mud and filth with which it is encompassed. John Dryden, Aurengzebe. Pref. to.

Wikipedia

  1. Moat

    A moat is a deep, broad ditch, either dry or filled with water, that is dug and surrounds a castle, fortification, building or town, historically to provide it with a preliminary line of defence. In some places moats evolved into more extensive water defences, including natural or artificial lakes, dams and sluices. In older fortifications, such as hillforts, they are usually referred to simply as ditches, although the function is similar. In later periods, moats or water defences may be largely ornamental. They could also act as a sewer.

ChatGPT

  1. moat

    A moat is a deep and wide trench, typically filled with water, that surrounds a castle, fortress, or town, serving as a defense against potential invaders. It often has a drawbridge over it for access to the entrance of the structure.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Moatnoun

    a deep trench around the rampart of a castle or other fortified place, sometimes filled with water; a ditch

  2. Moatverb

    to surround with a moat

  3. Etymology: [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.]

Wikidata

  1. Moat

    A moat is a deep, broad ditch, either dry or filled with water, that surrounds a castle, other building or town, historically to provide it with a preliminary line of defence. In some places moats evolved into more extensive water defences, including natural or artificial lakes, dams and sluices. In later periods the moat or water defences may be largely ornamental.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Moat

    mōt, n. a deep trench round a castle or fortified place, sometimes filled with water: (obs.) a hill or mound.—v.t. to surround with a moat.—adj. Moat′ed. [O. Fr, mote, a mound, trench.]

CrunchBase

  1. Moat

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Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. moat

    Synonymous with ditch (which see).

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer

  1. moat

    The ditch round the ramparts of a fortress may be either wet—i.e., full of water—or dry. In the latter, which is the commoner case, the depth should not be less than 12 feet, nor the width under 24. The more perpendicular the walls, so much the greater will be the obstruction to the enemy. In regular works the walls are usually reveted with masonry, that at the foot of the rampart being the scarp or escarp, and that below the covered way the counterscarp. See Ditch.

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  1. MOAT

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  2. Moat

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Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. MOAT

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Moat is ranked #38640 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Moat surname appeared 572 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Moat.

    80.2% or 459 total occurrences were White.
    13.6% or 78 total occurrences were Black.
    2.2% or 13 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    1.9% or 11 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.

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  1. Amto

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of MOAT in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of MOAT in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of MOAT in a Sentence

  1. William Shakespeare:

    This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands,-- This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.

  2. Tobias Jones:

    For centuries, the worry was about the river flooding, but climate change has meant that Po River is now at risk of drying up, po River is not just Po River, Po River is part of the national psyche. The towns along Po River draw tourism and industry. It was almost a moat for central Italy that kept it safe from invaders. Now it is under threat and no one knows what to do to save it.

  3. Alexa Brauner:

    The first sections of the Ringstrasse to be completed were here: the Kaerntner Ring, and the Opernring, the boulevard itself is mostly built on the moat.

  4. Lamar Villere:

    The companies that are going to be able to withstand this are the ones that have a sort of moat around their businesses.

  5. Paul Offit:

    My gut says we're going to be able to contain this real quick -- we're going to be able to put a moat around this fire, i think this is going to be much more like SARS or MERS than the movie' Contagion.'.

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