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单词 moated
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
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 escapingmoated adjective
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