moat

     

A moat is eep, broad trench, usually filled with water, that surrounds a structure, installation, or town, normally to provide it with a preliminary line of defense.

Trivia about moat

  • Stan put this 4-letter castle-surrounding trench at his British client's home
  • It's usually a body of protective water spanned by the drawbridge
  • No castle is complete without this deep trench that prevents access from the surrounding land
  • It contains water under the bridge, a castle's drawbridge
  • The old section of Riga is surrounded by one of these trenches
  • A drawbridge crosses it
  • Great Chalfield, a medieval manor, has one of these water-filled trenches
  • A water-filled barrier around a castle
  • In Rome a castello might be encircled by a fosso, one of these