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MOAT

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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 surrounding a castle,
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town or other fortified place for purposes of defence . The word is taken from the O . Fr. mote, or motte, a
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mound or
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embankment of earth used as a means of defence; the transition in meaning from the heap of earth to the trench
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left by excavating the earth is parallel with the similar interchange of meaning in dike and ditch (see DIxE) . In mod . Fr. motte means a lump or clod of earth . The word is probably of Teutonic origin, and may be connected with Eng .

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