Word Meanings - MOAT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A deep trench around the rampart of a castle or other fortified place, sometimes filled with water; a ditch. (more info) Sp. & Pg. mota bank or mound of earth, It. motta clod, LL. mota, motta, a hill on which a fort is built, an eminence, a dike,

Additional info about word: MOAT

A deep trench around the rampart of a castle or other fortified place, sometimes filled with water; a ditch. (more info) Sp. & Pg. mota bank or mound of earth, It. motta clod, LL. mota, motta, a hill on which a fort is built, an eminence, a dike, Prov. G. mott bog earth heaped up; or perh. F. motte, and OF. mote, are from a LL. p.p. of L. movere to move . The name of moat, properly meaning, bank or mound, was transferred to the ditch adjoining: cf.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of MOAT)

• Intrenchment
• Ditch
• dyke
• moat
• circumvallation
• encroachment
• infringement
• trespass
• Trench
• Moat
• ditch
• drain
• fosse

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of MOAT)

• Replenish
• fill
• supply
• pour
• moisten
• drown
• inundate
• drench
• swill

Related words: (words related to MOAT)

• TRENCH-PLOW; TRENCH-PLOUGH
  To plow with deep furrows, for the purpose of loosening the land to a greater depth than usual.
• DRAINE
  The missel thrush.
• SUPPLYMENT
  A supplying or furnishing; supply. Shak.
• SWILLINGS
  See 1
• SWILL
  To drink in great draughts; to swallow greedily. Well-dressed people, of both sexes, . . . devouring sliced beef, and swilling pork, and punch, and cider. Smollett. 3. To inebriate; to fill with drink. I should be loth To meet the rudeness
• TRENCHER
  1. One who trenches; esp., one who cuts or digs ditches. 2. A large wooden plate or platter, as for table use. 3. The table; hence, the pleasures of the table; food. It could be no ordinary declension of nature that could bring some men, after
• DROWN
  To be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish in water. Methought, what pain it was to drown. Shak. (more info) be drowned, sink, become drunk, fr. druncen drunken. See Drunken,
• REPLENISHMENT
  1. The act of replenishing, or the state of being replenished. 2. That which replenishes; supply. Cowper.
• FOSSE
  A ditch or moat.
• SUPPLY
  LL. suppletare, from L. supplere, suppletum; sub under + plere to 1. To fill up, or keep full; to furnish with what is wanted; to afford, or furnish with, a sufficiency; as, rivers are supplied by smaller streams; an aqueduct supplies an artificial
• DITCHER
  One who digs ditches.
• FOSSETTE
  A small, deep-centered ulcer of the transparent cornea. (more info) 1. A little hollow; hence, a dimple.
• TRENCH
  To fortify by cutting a ditch, and raising a rampart or breastwork with the earth thrown out of the ditch; to intrench. Pope. No more shall trenching war channel her fields. Shak. 3. To cut furrows or ditches in; as, to trench land for the purpose
• TRENCHANT
  1. Fitted to trench or cut; gutting; sharp. " Trenchant was the blade." Chaucer. 2. Fig.: Keen; biting; severe; as, trenchant wit.
• INUNDATE
  pref. in- in + undare to rise in waves, to overflow, fr. unda a wave. 1. To cover with a flood; to overflow; to deluge; to flood; as, the river inundated the town. 2. To fill with an overflowing abundance or superfluity; as, the country
• MOISTENER
  One who, or that which, moistens. Johnson.
• DITCH
  1. A trench made in the earth by digging, particularly a trench for draining wet land, for guarding or fencing inclosures, or for preventing an approach to a town or fortress. In the latter sense, it is called also a moat or a fosse. 2. Any long,
• SUPPLYANT
  Supplying or aiding; auxiliary; suppletory. Shak.
• SWILLER
  One who swills.
• TRENCHAND
  Trenchant. Spenser.
• WATER DRAIN
  A drain or channel for draining off water.
• UNDERDITCH
  To dig an underground ditches in, so as to drain the surface; to underdrain; as, to underditch a field or a farm.
• INTRENCHANT
  Not to be gashed or marked with furrows. As easy mayest thou the intrenchant air With thy keen sword impress, as make me bleed. Shak.
• INDRENCH
  To overwhelm with water; to drench; to drown. Shak.
• TOP-DRAINING
  The act or practice of drining the surface of land.
• RESUPPLY
  To supply again.