单词	moat
释义	moatmoat /məʊt $ moʊt/ noun [countable] Word Origin WORD ORIGINmoat Origin: 1300-1400 Old French mote, motte ‘small hill (on which a castle was built)’ Examples EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS But, before she could shoot, Rupert jumped over the side of the bridge, and down into the moat below. He could not understand why he should not put them in the moats. It was surrounded by a 100-foot-wide moat, crossed by causeways lined by statues of soldiers and elephants. No one spoke of it but it was there, like a little moat between us, widening each day. Silently, he went down into the water and swam across the moat. The far end of his cell faced the moat, where executions took place. The new north front was built rising directly from the moat. To the south-west, a deep moat, spanned by a drawbridge, completed defences. word sets WORD SETS► Defence bomb shelter, nounearthwork, nounentanglement, nounentrenchment, nounmail, nounmoat, nounrepulse, verbresistance, nounstockade, nounwar game, noun 1a deep wide hole, usually filled with water, dug around a castle as a defence2a deep wide hole dug around an area in a zoo, used to stop animals from escaping—moated adjective
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