MOAT  , a ditch filled with See also:

• WATER

water surrounding a See also:

• CASTLE
• CASTLE (Lat. castellum, a fort, diminutive of castra, a camp; Fr. chateau and chdtel)

castle, See also:

• TOWN

town or other fortified See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place for purposes of See also:

• DEFENCE
• DEFENCE (Lat. defendere, to defend)

defence . The word is taken from the O . Fr. mote, or motte, a See also:

• MOUND

mound or See also:

• EMBANKMENT

embankment of See also:

• EARTH
• EARTH (a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Erde, Dutch aarde, Swed. and Dan. jord; outside Teutonic it appears only in the Gr. 'pq'e, on the ground; it has been connected by some etymologists with the Aryan root ar-, to plough, which is seen in
• EARTH, FIGURE OF
• EARTH, FIGURE OF THE

earth used as a means of defence; the transition in meaning from the heap of earth to the See also:

• TRENCH, RICHARD CHENEVIX (1807-1886)

trench See also:

• LEFT

left by excavating the earth is parallel with the similar interchange of meaning in See also:

• DIKE, or DYKE (Old Eng. dic, a word which appears in various forms in many Teutonic languages, cf. Dutch dijk, German Teich, Danish dige, and in French, derived from Teutonic, digue; it is the same word as " ditch " and is ultimately connected with the ro

dike and ditch (see DIxE) . In mod . Fr. motte means a lump or clod of earth . The word is probably of See also:

• TEUTONIC
• TEUTONIC (GERMANIC) LANGUAGES

Teutonic origin, and may be connected with Eng .