moatn.¹

Brit.

/məʊt/, U.S.

/moʊt/

Forms: Middle English moot, Middle English–1500s moote, Middle English–1500s (1800s– regional) mot, Middle English–1700s mote, 1500s motte, 1500s–1600s moate, 1600s– moat, 1900s– mooat (English regional (northern)), 1900s– mott; also Scottish pre-1700 mot, pre-1700 mote, pre-1700 mott.

Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: mote n.²

Etymology: Originally a variant of mote n.² (see discussion at that entry), now usually distinguished in form in the senses below. Compare later motte n.²

1. A deep, wide ditch surrounding a castle, fort, town, etc., typically filled with water and intended as a defence against attack. Also in extended use.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > moat > [noun]

moatc1400

water walla1500

town ditchc1503

fossec1550

fossé1637

water-guard1930

c1400 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Trin. Cambr. R.3.14) (1960) A. vi. 73 Þe mot is of mercy þe Maner al aboute.

c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xix. 362 (MED) Conscience comaunded þo al crystene to delue And make a muche mote.

1469 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 46 Alle the curtelage..wyth jnne the moote.

1542 A. Borde Compend. Regyment Helth iv. sig. C.ii^v Yf there be a moote made aboute it [sc. a mansion], there should some fresshe sprynge come to it.

1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II ii. i. 48 The siluer sea, Which serues it in the office of a wall, Or as moate defensiue to a house.

1647 J. Sprigge Anglia Rediviva i. iv. 25 By reason of the Moat, the accesse was ill to it.

1694 Marquis of Halifax Rough Draft New Model at Sea 4 It may be said now to England,..What shall we do to be saved in this World? There is no other answer, but this, Look to your Mote.

1703 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion II. vi. 113 The Close in Lichfield..; a place naturally strong, and defended with a Mote.

1751 S. Jenyns Mod. Fine Lady 7 Until at length appears the ruin'd Hall Within the grass-green Moat, and ivy'd Wall.

1808 Ld. Erskine in Parl. Deb. 1st Ser. 10 929 Surrounded by that impregnable moat with which the Divine Providence has fortified this island, we can say [etc.].

1820 W. Irving Sketch Bk. (U. S. ed. 2) iii. 30 The garden..occupies what was once the moat of the keep.

1871 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest IV. xviii. 153 A sort of ravine..forms a natural moat round the greater part of the city.

1937 R. K. Narayan Bachelor of Arts ii. 45 Chandran..asked himself what could be done short of digging a moat around the house and putting crocodiles in it.

1973 A. Fugard Island in Statements (1974) i. 47 Stage-lights came up to reveal a moat of harsh, white light around the cell.

1991 Washington Post 30 Jan. a15/2 The Capitol was an island, a throbbing political center surrounded by a moat of security.

1995 M. Lewis Singapore: Rough Guide 89/1 The Singapore Zoological Gardens..one of the world's few open zoos, where moats are preferred to cages.

2. A pond or lake; esp. a fish pond. Now British regional.Not always distinguishable from sense 1.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > fish-keeping, farming, or breeding > [noun] > fish-pond or -tank

fish-poolc950

fish-housec1000

viverc1330

stew1387

piscinaa1398

piscinea1400

fishpondc1440

trunk1440

moat1463

stagnec1470

servatorya1475

viviera1500

fish-stew1552

vivarium1600

shut1605

fish-stove1615

keep1617

estang1628

vivarya1634

nursery1772

preserve1849

whalerya1880

fish tank1957

1463 in Manners & Househ. Expenses Eng. (1841) 563 My master put into his long mote be the hye wey..in roches, ixxx.

1539 Act 31 Hen. VIII c. 2 (title) Fishing in any seuerall ponde stewe or mot with an intent to steale fishe out of the same is felony.

1598 B. Yong tr. J. de Montemayor Diana 71 They came to a large greene meadow, wherein was a very faire great moate of cleere water.

1670 T. Blount Νομο-λεξικον: Law-dict. Rogerus tradidit prefato Thomæ tria stagna & unam Motam Piscariam existentem infra manerium Domini de Yeffyn.]

1682 R. Nobbes Compl. Troller i. 2 One that had catch'd an Eel..was pulling off the skin and washing it in a Mote.

1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VI. 38 The water-hen..keeps near ponds, motes, and pools of water near gentlemen's houses.

1851 T. Sternberg Dial. & Folk-lore Northants. 71 Mot, a moat, or small pond.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

moat bridge n.

ΚΠ

1874 Cornhill Mag. Nov. 560 In dashing over the moat bridge, he had shouted to the fugitives who were obstructing him.

1899 S. R. Crockett Black Douglas (ed 2) 94 Sholto stood..on the topmost step of the ascent from the moat-bridge.

1990 Orlando Sentinel (Nexis) 2 Sept. F2 They argue that the defense of ‘decency’ is our last stand against besieging barbarians, but I think they are unwittingly lowering the moat bridge.

moat side n.

ΚΠ

1697 J. Vanbrugh Relapse iv. 76 Will they open the Gate, or do they desire I should grow at their Mote side like a Willow?

1781 R. B. Sheridan Trip to Scarborough iii. xiii. 57 Are we to be left to grow like willows By your moat side?

1994 Washington Post (Nexis) 1 May E1 We got a kick out of captions like, ‘Lastly, a little before dawn, a spearman had come staggering to the moat side’.

C2.

moat-dried adj. rare having a dried-up moat.

ΚΠ

1852 G. A. Sala in Househ. Words 20 Mar. 8/1 Stanfield Hall—shut up, untenanted, moat-dried.

moat garden n. a garden situated in a dried-up or drained moat.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > garden > [noun] > other types of garden

grounda1500

knot-garden1519

back-garden1535

summer garden1589

spring garden1612

spring gardena1625

water gardena1626

walled gardena1631

wildernessa1644

window garden1649

botanic garden1662

Hanging Gardens1705

winter garden1736

cottage garden1765

Vauxhall1770

English garden1771

wall garden1780

chinampa1787

moat garden1826

gardenesque1832

sunk garden1835

roof garden1844

weedery1847

wild garden1852

rootery1855

beer-garden1863

Japanese garden1863

bog-garden1883

Italian garden1883

community garden1884

sink garden1894

trough garden1935

sand garden1936

Zen garden1937

hydroponicum1938

tub garden1974

rain garden1994

1826 H. Smith Tor Hill II. iii. 82 It was not his whistle ye heard, but the blackbird in the moat-garden.

1971 Dict. National Biogr. 1951–60 1053/2 He..was appointed deputy constable and lieutenant-governor of Windsor castle,..where he applied his mind to horticulture and gradually converted the moat garden into a botanical showplace.

moat-hen n. now British regional the moorhen, Gallinula chloropus.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > birds > order Gruiformes > [noun] > family Rallidae (rail) > genus Gallinula > gallinula chloropus (moor-hen)

moorhena1350

water henc1520

moat-hen1544

moor coot?1606

mud hen1611

marsh hen1709

heath-game1711

stank-hen1766

clapper rail1813

skitty1813

kitty-coot1885

1544 W. Turner Avium Præcipuarum sig. I6 Trynga, Anglicè a uuater hen, or a mot hen.

1887 A. C. Smith Birds Wilts. 445 Moorhen,..the ‘Common Gallinule’, ‘Water-Hen’, and ‘Marsh-Hen’,..used in old time to be ‘Mot-hen’, meaning ‘Moat-hen’, for..in the days of moated houses they were very frequent about the moats.

moat house n. a house with a moat.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > house of specific shape or style

hall-house1467

longhouse1643

bungalow1676

single housea1684

tower-house1687

villa1755

box1773

cottage orné1774

villarette1792

mews1805

cottage1808

terrace house1817

casita1822

villa dwelling1833

villa residence1833

box-house1846

six-roomer1853

terrace1854

tembe1860

moat house1871

parlour house1871

row house1871

salt-box1876

trullo1898

townhouse1900

colonial1903

semi1912

Cape Cod1916

bungaloid1927

semi-detached1928

ranchette1938

solar house1946

rambler1947

rancher1950

ranch1951

tunnel-back1957

sidesplit1958

two-up-and-two-downer1958

two-up two-down1958

semi-det1960

A-frame1963

townhouse1965

tri-level1965

link house1968

split1970

dormer bungalow1977

1871 Saint Pauls Feb. 445 The people at the Moat-House..had looked very coldly on the marriage.

1899 G. M. Trevelyan Eng. Age Wycliffe 318 He was welcomed at nightfall to the kitchen fire of the moat-house.

1999 Bath Chron. (Nexis) 13 Nov. 33 Sheerings Farm at Maidenhead..included two barns and a moat house.

Derivatives

ˈmoat-like adj.

ΚΠ

1835 M. R. Mitford Country Stories 48 To..clear out the moat-like ditches.

1932 Ecol. Monogr. 2 224 We asked..what the moat-like water area encircling Mitchell Island might be.

1992 S. Sontag Volcano Lover i. vii. 112 He knelt in the moat-like surround of the cone, placed his palms upon the dusty rubble.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

† moatn.²

Forms: 1500s–1600s moate, 1500s–1700s mote, 1600s mot.

Origin: Of uncertain origin.

Etymology: Origin uncertain. Perhaps related to mit n. (compare sense 2 s.v.), or perhaps extended use of moat n.¹ (perhaps with reference to the shape of the receptacle: compare French motte de beurre pat of butter (1635)).

Obsolete.

A cheese-vat.Recorded earliest in cheese moat (see cheese n.¹ Compounds 2).

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of dairy produce > [noun] > formation of cheese > cheese tub, vat, or mould

cheese vatOE

cheese tub1513

cheese moat1574

moat1577

cheese mould1588

chesford1596

vat1669

cheese hoop1678

chessel1721

cheesebail1730

thrusting-tub1846

hoop1857

1577 in F. G. Emmison Elizabethan Life (1980) (modernized text) V. iii. 30 Poultry, tubs, barrels, trays and cheese motes.

1582 Inventory R. Cobb in Consistory Court of Canterbury Item ij cheese presses iij moates [etc.]

?1600 H. Plat Delightes for Ladies sig. F9^v You may deuise moates or Cases [for cheese] either rounde or square of fine wicker.

1736 N. Bailey Dict. Domesticum 171 Fill a narrow high cheese mote or vat, continually filling as the curd sinks, till the mote or vat is full.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

moatv.

Brit.

/məʊt/, U.S.

/moʊt/

Forms: late Middle English–1600s mote, 1500s– moat, 1600s moit, 1600s motting (present participle).

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: moat n.¹

Etymology: < moat n.¹

1. transitive. To surround or enclose (a castle, fort, town, etc.) with or as if with a moat or ditch. Frequently with about, in, round. Usually in passive.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > moat > surround with moat [verb (transitive)]

moatc1440

stankc1650

c1440 (a1400) Awntyrs Arthure (Thornton) 671 Twa baronryse in Burgoyne, with burghes so balde, That are moted [v.r. batailed] abowte.

1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1845) xxxiv. 175 A manour place, Moted about.

1582 J. Yates Castell of Courtesie 2 Moated round, where pleasant springes, doe yeeld a rare delight.

1606 P. Holland tr. Suetonius Hist. Twelve Caesars 17 The Cirque was enlarged on both sides and moted round about [L. in gyrum Evripo addito].

1680 R. Morden Geogr. Rectified (1685) 96 Komora is..moated by the Danow.

1700 J. Dryden tr. Ovid Ceyx & Alcyone in Fables 372 An Arm of Lethe with a gentle flow..The Palace moats.

1768 P. Morant Hist. Essex II. 599/1 It is now but a farm-house moated in.

1805 H. F. Cary tr. Dante Inferno I. viii. 127 We came within the fosses deep, that moat This region comfortless.

1848 J. A. Carlyle tr. Dante Inferno (1849) 88 The deep fosses, which moat that joyless city.

1885 Dict. National Biogr. II. 146/2 He..built a parsonage house and moated it round with rivers and fish-ponds.

a1933 J. Galsworthy End of Chapter (1934) i. ii. 11 It had undoubtedly been moated; but under Queen Anne a restorative Cherrell..had drained off the water.

1987 Sunday Express Mag. 2 Aug. (Best of Britain Suppl.) 8 Gwynedd the fortress, the strong land..moated by the Menai Strait, has never died.

2. transitive. In extended use: to cause to be isolated, as if with a moat; to cut off or separate physically (from somewhere else). Also with in, round, up.

ΚΠ

1617 Bp. J. Hall Quo Vadis? (new ed.) i. 1 In moting our Iland with the Ocean hee [sc. God] meant to shut vs vp from other regions.

1631 B. Jonson Staple of Newes iv. ii. 23 in Wks. II The Master-Cooke..Makes Citadels.., Some he dri-dishes, some motes round with broths.

1641 J. Trapp Theologia Theol. iv. 181 Warding off (as well as they can) Gods blow, motting themselves up against his fire.

1652 E. Benlowes Theophila iii. lxvi. 45 When Purple Robes hide Scarlet Sin, Ingrain'd from that Life-blood, which moated their Souls in.

1740 H. Walpole Lett. (1857) I. 63 The torrent broke down the quays... We were moated into our house all day.

1743 E. Young Complaint: Night the Fifth 31 Moated round, with fathomless Destruction.

1830 Examiner 785/1 A prodigious effusion of cant..streamed forth, to moat in as it were, the new Government.

1852 M. Arnold Empedocles on Etna, & Other Poems ii The sea of cloud That heaves its white and billowy vapours up To moat this isle of ashes from the world.

1882 J. Ruskin Bible of Amiens iii. 100 The northern kingdoms are moated from the Scythian desert by the Vistula.

1980 W. Percy Second Coming i. iii. 74 His ball..lay..a good hundred and eighty yards from the green..moated clean around by sand.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

n.¹c1400

n.²1577

v.c1440

单词	moat
释义	moatn.¹ Brit. /məʊt/, U.S. /moʊt/ Forms: Middle English moot, Middle English–1500s moote, Middle English–1500s (1800s– regional) mot, Middle English–1700s mote, 1500s motte, 1500s–1600s moate, 1600s– moat, 1900s– mooat (English regional (northern)), 1900s– mott; also Scottish pre-1700 mot, pre-1700 mote, pre-1700 mott. Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: mote n.² Etymology: Originally a variant of mote n.² (see discussion at that entry), now usually distinguished in form in the senses below. Compare later motte n.² 1. A deep, wide ditch surrounding a castle, fort, town, etc., typically filled with water and intended as a defence against attack. Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > moat > [noun] moatc1400 water walla1500 town ditchc1503 fossec1550 fossé1637 water-guard1930 c1400 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Trin. Cambr. R.3.14) (1960) A. vi. 73 Þe mot is of mercy þe Maner al aboute. c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xix. 362 (MED) Conscience comaunded þo al crystene to delue And make a muche mote. 1469 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 46 Alle the curtelage..wyth jnne the moote. 1542 A. Borde Compend. Regyment Helth iv. sig. C.ii^v Yf there be a moote made aboute it [sc. a mansion], there should some fresshe sprynge come to it. 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II ii. i. 48 The siluer sea, Which serues it in the office of a wall, Or as moate defensiue to a house. View more context for this quotation 1647 J. Sprigge Anglia Rediviva i. iv. 25 By reason of the Moat, the accesse was ill to it. 1694 Marquis of Halifax Rough Draft New Model at Sea 4 It may be said now to England,..What shall we do to be saved in this World? There is no other answer, but this, Look to your Mote. 1703 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion II. vi. 113 The Close in Lichfield..; a place naturally strong, and defended with a Mote. 1751 S. Jenyns Mod. Fine Lady 7 Until at length appears the ruin'd Hall Within the grass-green Moat, and ivy'd Wall. 1808 Ld. Erskine in Parl. Deb. 1st Ser. 10 929 Surrounded by that impregnable moat with which the Divine Providence has fortified this island, we can say [etc.]. 1820 W. Irving Sketch Bk. (U. S. ed. 2) iii. 30 The garden..occupies what was once the moat of the keep. 1871 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest IV. xviii. 153 A sort of ravine..forms a natural moat round the greater part of the city. 1937 R. K. Narayan Bachelor of Arts ii. 45 Chandran..asked himself what could be done short of digging a moat around the house and putting crocodiles in it. 1973 A. Fugard Island in Statements (1974) i. 47 Stage-lights came up to reveal a moat of harsh, white light around the cell. 1991 Washington Post 30 Jan. a15/2 The Capitol was an island, a throbbing political center surrounded by a moat of security. 1995 M. Lewis Singapore: Rough Guide 89/1 The Singapore Zoological Gardens..one of the world's few open zoos, where moats are preferred to cages. 2. A pond or lake; esp. a fish pond. Now British regional.Not always distinguishable from sense 1. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > fish-keeping, farming, or breeding > [noun] > fish-pond or -tank fish-poolc950 fish-housec1000 viverc1330 stew1387 piscinaa1398 piscinea1400 fishpondc1440 trunk1440 moat1463 stagnec1470 servatorya1475 viviera1500 fish-stew1552 vivarium1600 shut1605 fish-stove1615 keep1617 estang1628 vivarya1634 nursery1772 preserve1849 whalerya1880 fish tank1957 1463 in Manners & Househ. Expenses Eng. (1841) 563 My master put into his long mote be the hye wey..in roches, ixxx. 1539 Act 31 Hen. VIII c. 2 (title) Fishing in any seuerall ponde stewe or mot with an intent to steale fishe out of the same is felony. 1598 B. Yong tr. J. de Montemayor Diana 71 They came to a large greene meadow, wherein was a very faire great moate of cleere water. 1670 T. Blount Νομο-λεξικον: Law-dict. Rogerus tradidit prefato Thomæ tria stagna & unam Motam Piscariam existentem infra manerium Domini de Yeffyn.] 1682 R. Nobbes Compl. Troller i. 2 One that had catch'd an Eel..was pulling off the skin and washing it in a Mote. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VI. 38 The water-hen..keeps near ponds, motes, and pools of water near gentlemen's houses. 1851 T. Sternberg Dial. & Folk-lore Northants. 71 Mot, a moat, or small pond. Compounds C1. General attributive. moat bridge n. ΚΠ 1874 Cornhill Mag. Nov. 560 In dashing over the moat bridge, he had shouted to the fugitives who were obstructing him. 1899 S. R. Crockett Black Douglas (ed 2) 94 Sholto stood..on the topmost step of the ascent from the moat-bridge. 1990 Orlando Sentinel (Nexis) 2 Sept. F2 They argue that the defense of ‘decency’ is our last stand against besieging barbarians, but I think they are unwittingly lowering the moat bridge. moat side n. ΚΠ 1697 J. Vanbrugh Relapse iv. 76 Will they open the Gate, or do they desire I should grow at their Mote side like a Willow? 1781 R. B. Sheridan Trip to Scarborough iii. xiii. 57 Are we to be left to grow like willows By your moat side? 1994 Washington Post (Nexis) 1 May E1 We got a kick out of captions like, ‘Lastly, a little before dawn, a spearman had come staggering to the moat side’. C2. moat-dried adj. rare having a dried-up moat. ΚΠ 1852 G. A. Sala in Househ. Words 20 Mar. 8/1 Stanfield Hall—shut up, untenanted, moat-dried. moat garden n. a garden situated in a dried-up or drained moat. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > garden > [noun] > other types of garden grounda1500 knot-garden1519 back-garden1535 summer garden1589 spring garden1612 spring gardena1625 water gardena1626 walled gardena1631 wildernessa1644 window garden1649 botanic garden1662 Hanging Gardens1705 winter garden1736 cottage garden1765 Vauxhall1770 English garden1771 wall garden1780 chinampa1787 moat garden1826 gardenesque1832 sunk garden1835 roof garden1844 weedery1847 wild garden1852 rootery1855 beer-garden1863 Japanese garden1863 bog-garden1883 Italian garden1883 community garden1884 sink garden1894 trough garden1935 sand garden1936 Zen garden1937 hydroponicum1938 tub garden1974 rain garden1994 1826 H. Smith Tor Hill II. iii. 82 It was not his whistle ye heard, but the blackbird in the moat-garden. 1971 Dict. National Biogr. 1951–60 1053/2 He..was appointed deputy constable and lieutenant-governor of Windsor castle,..where he applied his mind to horticulture and gradually converted the moat garden into a botanical showplace. moat-hen n. now British regional the moorhen, Gallinula chloropus. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Gruiformes > [noun] > family Rallidae (rail) > genus Gallinula > gallinula chloropus (moor-hen) moorhena1350 water henc1520 moat-hen1544 moor coot?1606 mud hen1611 marsh hen1709 heath-game1711 stank-hen1766 clapper rail1813 skitty1813 kitty-coot1885 1544 W. Turner Avium Præcipuarum sig. I6 Trynga, Anglicè a uuater hen, or a mot hen. 1887 A. C. Smith Birds Wilts. 445 Moorhen,..the ‘Common Gallinule’, ‘Water-Hen’, and ‘Marsh-Hen’,..used in old time to be ‘Mot-hen’, meaning ‘Moat-hen’, for..in the days of moated houses they were very frequent about the moats. moat house n. a house with a moat. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > house of specific shape or style hall-house1467 longhouse1643 bungalow1676 single housea1684 tower-house1687 villa1755 box1773 cottage orné1774 villarette1792 mews1805 cottage1808 terrace house1817 casita1822 villa dwelling1833 villa residence1833 box-house1846 six-roomer1853 terrace1854 tembe1860 moat house1871 parlour house1871 row house1871 salt-box1876 trullo1898 townhouse1900 colonial1903 semi1912 Cape Cod1916 bungaloid1927 semi-detached1928 ranchette1938 solar house1946 rambler1947 rancher1950 ranch1951 tunnel-back1957 sidesplit1958 two-up-and-two-downer1958 two-up two-down1958 semi-det1960 A-frame1963 townhouse1965 tri-level1965 link house1968 split1970 dormer bungalow1977 1871 Saint Pauls Feb. 445 The people at the Moat-House..had looked very coldly on the marriage. 1899 G. M. Trevelyan Eng. Age Wycliffe 318 He was welcomed at nightfall to the kitchen fire of the moat-house. 1999 Bath Chron. (Nexis) 13 Nov. 33 Sheerings Farm at Maidenhead..included two barns and a moat house. Derivatives ˈmoat-like adj. ΚΠ 1835 M. R. Mitford Country Stories 48 To..clear out the moat-like ditches. 1932 Ecol. Monogr. 2 224 We asked..what the moat-like water area encircling Mitchell Island might be. 1992 S. Sontag Volcano Lover i. vii. 112 He knelt in the moat-like surround of the cone, placed his palms upon the dusty rubble. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † moatn.² Forms: 1500s–1600s moate, 1500s–1700s mote, 1600s mot. Origin: Of uncertain origin. Etymology: Origin uncertain. Perhaps related to mit n. (compare sense 2 s.v.), or perhaps extended use of moat n.¹ (perhaps with reference to the shape of the receptacle: compare French motte de beurre pat of butter (1635)). Obsolete. A cheese-vat.Recorded earliest in cheese moat (see cheese n.¹ Compounds 2). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of dairy produce > [noun] > formation of cheese > cheese tub, vat, or mould cheese vatOE cheese tub1513 cheese moat1574 moat1577 cheese mould1588 chesford1596 vat1669 cheese hoop1678 chessel1721 cheesebail1730 thrusting-tub1846 hoop1857 1577 in F. G. Emmison Elizabethan Life (1980) (modernized text) V. iii. 30 Poultry, tubs, barrels, trays and cheese motes. 1582 Inventory R. Cobb in Consistory Court of Canterbury Item ij cheese presses iij moates [etc.] ?1600 H. Plat Delightes for Ladies sig. F9^v You may deuise moates or Cases [for cheese] either rounde or square of fine wicker. 1736 N. Bailey Dict. Domesticum 171 Fill a narrow high cheese mote or vat, continually filling as the curd sinks, till the mote or vat is full. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online December 2020). moatv. Brit. /məʊt/, U.S. /moʊt/ Forms: late Middle English–1600s mote, 1500s– moat, 1600s moit, 1600s motting (present participle). Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: moat n.¹ Etymology: < moat n.¹ 1. transitive. To surround or enclose (a castle, fort, town, etc.) with or as if with a moat or ditch. Frequently with about, in, round. Usually in passive. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > moat > surround with moat [verb (transitive)] moatc1440 stankc1650 c1440 (a1400) Awntyrs Arthure (Thornton) 671 Twa baronryse in Burgoyne, with burghes so balde, That are moted [v.r. batailed] abowte. 1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1845) xxxiv. 175 A manour place, Moted about. 1582 J. Yates Castell of Courtesie 2 Moated round, where pleasant springes, doe yeeld a rare delight. 1606 P. Holland tr. Suetonius Hist. Twelve Caesars 17 The Cirque was enlarged on both sides and moted round about [L. in gyrum Evripo addito]. 1680 R. Morden Geogr. Rectified (1685) 96 Komora is..moated by the Danow. 1700 J. Dryden tr. Ovid Ceyx & Alcyone in Fables 372 An Arm of Lethe with a gentle flow..The Palace moats. 1768 P. Morant Hist. Essex II. 599/1 It is now but a farm-house moated in. 1805 H. F. Cary tr. Dante Inferno I. viii. 127 We came within the fosses deep, that moat This region comfortless. 1848 J. A. Carlyle tr. Dante Inferno (1849) 88 The deep fosses, which moat that joyless city. 1885 Dict. National Biogr. II. 146/2 He..built a parsonage house and moated it round with rivers and fish-ponds. a1933 J. Galsworthy End of Chapter (1934) i. ii. 11 It had undoubtedly been moated; but under Queen Anne a restorative Cherrell..had drained off the water. 1987 Sunday Express Mag. 2 Aug. (Best of Britain Suppl.) 8 Gwynedd the fortress, the strong land..moated by the Menai Strait, has never died. 2. transitive. In extended use: to cause to be isolated, as if with a moat; to cut off or separate physically (from somewhere else). Also with in, round, up. ΚΠ 1617 Bp. J. Hall Quo Vadis? (new ed.) i. 1 In moting our Iland with the Ocean hee [sc. God] meant to shut vs vp from other regions. 1631 B. Jonson Staple of Newes iv. ii. 23 in Wks. II The Master-Cooke..Makes Citadels.., Some he dri-dishes, some motes round with broths. 1641 J. Trapp Theologia Theol. iv. 181 Warding off (as well as they can) Gods blow, motting themselves up against his fire. 1652 E. Benlowes Theophila iii. lxvi. 45 When Purple Robes hide Scarlet Sin, Ingrain'd from that Life-blood, which moated their Souls in. 1740 H. Walpole Lett. (1857) I. 63 The torrent broke down the quays... We were moated into our house all day. 1743 E. Young Complaint: Night the Fifth 31 Moated round, with fathomless Destruction. 1830 Examiner 785/1 A prodigious effusion of cant..streamed forth, to moat in as it were, the new Government. 1852 M. Arnold Empedocles on Etna, & Other Poems ii The sea of cloud That heaves its white and billowy vapours up To moat this isle of ashes from the world. 1882 J. Ruskin Bible of Amiens iii. 100 The northern kingdoms are moated from the Scythian desert by the Vistula. 1980 W. Percy Second Coming i. iii. 74 His ball..lay..a good hundred and eighty yards from the green..moated clean around by sand. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.¹c1400n.²1577v.c1440
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