Word Finder - moat

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

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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.

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A circular lowland between a resurgent dome and the walls of the caldera surrounding it.

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A hill or mound.

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To surround with a moat.

Traces of the moat and the foundations are still to be seen in Priory Close.

In plan it is a triangle, protected by a double moat, and has round towers at the angles.

But this practice was discontinued in 1852 and the moat was filled with earth in 1905.

Each of these canals marks the line of the city walls and moat at different periods.

The inner city, including the business quarter, is contained almost entirely between the river and the Rosenlunds canal, continued in the Vallgraf, the moat of the old fortifications; and is crossed by the Storahamn, Ostrahamn and Vestrahamn canals.

On the north of the Tsze-kin ch'eng, and separated from it by a moat, is an artificial mound known as the King shan, or "Prospect Hill."

The ancient part of the town is still surrounded by the former moat, and in the centre lies a group of open places, of which the Groote Markt is one of the largest market-squares in Holland.

On the west side of the park a paved causeway, leading over the moat and under a magnificent portico, extends for a distance of a quarter of a mile to the chief entrance of the main building.

The moat of the ancient castle built by the Mowbrays about 980 remains.

The palace contains no moat, or armed guards, nor do I detect any sophisticated security system.

It constitutes a little town of itself, surrounded by walls and a moat, and contains numerous small houses, 18 convents and a church.

The walls of the moat were utilized for the cellars of the houses which soon occupied the site of the ramparts, and the ground, which had been covered by the citadel, was laid out in gardens.

The manor house or palace of the bishops of London stands in grounds, beautifully planted and surrounded by a moat, believed to be a Danish work, near the river west of Putney Bridge.

To Mr Andrew Carnegie and Mr and Mrs M ` Kie of Moat House was due the free library.

Near the west extremity, abutting upon the Elbe, the moat was filled in in 1894-1897, and some good streets were built along the site, while the Kersten Miles-Briicke, adorned with statues of four Hamburg heroes, was thrown across the Helgolander Allee.

The Binnenhof, which has been already mentioned, was once surrounded by a moat, and is still entered through ancient gateways.

It has a station on the Cambrian line between Moat Lane and Brecon, and two others (high and low levels) at Builth Road about 14 m.

In 1140 a Benedictine monastery was founded here by Ralph Boteler of Oversley, and received the name of the Church of Our Lady of the Isle, owing to its insulation by a moat meeting the river Arrow.

During the time of its prosperity Amarapura was defended by a rampart and a large square citadel, with a broad moat, the walls being 7000 ft.

The castle of Angers, an imposing building girt with towers and a moat, dates from the 13th century and is now used as an armoury.

There were mass graves in the old moat.

A deep moat was dug outside it by Tukulti-Inaristi or Tukulti-Masu (about 1270 B.C.), and it was further defended on the land side by a salkhu or outwork.

The whole is surrounded by a deep moat 3 o to 40 ft.

It is quadrangular, surrounded by a moat filled by the Barada.

Working watermill, forge, 14th century gatehouse, beautiful gardens, moat walk, adventure play area, restaurant and gift shop.

Four marshy ponds to the SE of the moat were probably medieval fish ponds.

The site of the manor house is surrounded by a narrow moat which is fed by water from the New River.

Once enclosed by the longest moat in England, only 13 acres remain of the original 36.

During the 13th century the de Clinton family dug the moat and settled on the land, giving their name to the estate.

A moat surrounded all three enclosures, the inner bailey separated by its own moat surrounded all three enclosures, the inner bailey separated by its own moat.

This shows a large, square, water-filled moat with an arched causeway bridge over the west side.

Now the dry moat beneath the North Wall is playing host to an ice rink.

The clump of trees beyond the old barn indicate the site of the medieval moat.

Inside the bailey, the keep was further protected by a deep moat.

The most striking is the way it is lapped by the waters of its broad moat.

Bury Mount, the castle motte in Moat Lane, was probably built by the Normans in the 11th century.

West of Bishops Castle it headed straight for Moat Hill and became a deeply sunken lane.

It may even have been a smoking room, for some early clay tobacco pipes were found in the moat.

I had just reached the spot, when a loud whistle sounded over the moat behind me.

At Franeker his house was a small château, " separated by a moat from the rest of the town, where the mass could be said in safety."' And one motive in favour of accepting an invitation to England lay in the alleged leanings of Charles I.

Of the Château du Coudray, which is separated by a moat from the Château du Milieu, the chief remains are the Tour du Moulin (Tothce.ntury) and two less ancient towers.

Angkor-Vat, the best preserved example of Khmer architecture, lies less than a mile to the south of the royal city, within a rectangular park surrounded by a moat, the outer perimeter of which measures 6060 yds.

The moat, now dry, that surrounded the palace can still be seen along with a medieval key.

The delightful Severn Valley from MOAT LANE through NEWTOWN and WELSHPOOL to SHREWSBURY where semaphore signaling abounds.

Juan the Andean spectacled bear first paddled across a moat using a log for a raft, then scaled a wall.

A sheet cake castle might also feature a fun moat or drawbridge design in front.

It consists of a high mound surrounded by a moat, and is said to have been erected by Hengest.

The oblong block of buildings, fronted by lawns, is surrounded by a moat and protected by a gate-house, part of which dates from 1301, at which date the chapel and a part of the house were also built.

The Bavarian dukes of the Wittelsbach house occasionally resided at Munich, and in 1255 Duke Louis made it his capital, having previously surrounded it with walls and a moat.

The demolition of the ramparts of Old Calais was followed by the construction of a new circle of defences, embracing both the old and new quarters, and strengthened by a deep moat.