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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 635 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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MOAT , a ditch filled with

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WATER

water surrounding a

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TOWN

town or other fortified

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

place for purposes of

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

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MOUND

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EMBANKMENT

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

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TRENCH, RICHARD CHENEVIX (1807-1886)

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LEFT

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

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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

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Teutonic origin, and may be connected with Eng .

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