Crossword-Solution: MOAT
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Moat | n. | A deep trench around the rampart of a castle or other fortified place, sometimes filled with water; a ditch. |
| Moat | v. t. | To surround with a moat. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| MOAT | anagram | AMTO, ATMO, ATOM, MATO, MOTA, OMAT, TAMO, TOMA |
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with MOAT (5)
The poor Jew had been hastily thrust into a dungeon-vault of the castle, the floor of which was deep beneath the level of the ground, and very damp, being lower than even the moat itself.
Behind it stood another portion of the original castle, and behind that again, and separated from it by a deep and broad moat, which ran all round the old buildings, was a handsome modern chateau, erected by the last king, and now forming the country residence of the Duke of Strelsau.
But they entered it along with men bringing wares into the town, and none heeded them much, till they came to the very gate, on the further side of a moat that was both deep and clean; but as now the bridge was down and the portcullis up, so that the market-people might pass in easily, for it was yet early in the day.
The building rose from an island in the circling stream, so that this formed a perfect moat spanned by a two-arched bridge without a parapet.
Opposite to the mansions, on the other side of the gravel crescent, was a bushy enclosure more like a steep hedge or dyke than a garden, and some way below that ran a strip of artificial water, a sort of canal, like the moat of that embowered fortress.
Quotes with MOAT (3)
What do you see when you look at me?” My eyes narrowed and I pressed my lips together, weighing my thoughts. All of his bimbo admirers aside, what did I see? What did my gut tell me about this man? What did it say that allowed me to wind up here with him, under such impulsive circumstances?“You’re a sad man,” I swallowed. “You’re arrogant and set in your ways, but that creates a fortress for you. It’s your safe haven. Behind the moat is someone who has lost something he loved…
Along the wide curving moat surrounding the palace, rows of cherry trees announced the end of their seasonal beauty. Some of the trees were weeping: blossoms in white and palest pink, ponderous with decreptitude, eddying on the brown water, stirred by the paddling of ducks.
The older Kit gets, the less confident he feels judging other people as spouses or parents. These days, driving past the home of the Naked Hemp Society, he finds himself more curious than contemptuous about their easily ridiculed New Age ways. Why shouldn't they nurse their babies till age four? Why shouldn't they want to keep their children away from factory-farmed meats, from clothing soaked in fire-retardant chemicals, from dull-witted burned-out public school teachers who…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Daily Beast, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Slate, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 606 times in crossword archives (1947–2025).