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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 See also:

WATER

water surrounding a See also:

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. 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 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 origin, and may be connected with Eng.

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