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To surround with a moat. Dryden.

To void the excrement, as a bird; to mute. [Obs.]

A trench dug in the botton of a dry moat, and extending across it, to enable the besieged to defend it by a raking fire.

A drain trench, in a ditch or moat; -- called also cuvette.

ng to defend or protect; proper for defense; opposed to offensive; as, defensive armor. A moat defensive to a house. Shak.

or preventing an approach to a town or fortress. In the latter sense, it is called also a moat or a fosse.

cer. He pricketh endelong the large space. Chaucer. To thrust the raft endlong across the moat. Sir W. Scott.

e, and capable of being moved forward by pulleys; -- used for carrying troops over narrow moats in attacking the outworks of a fort. (c) A kind of ferryboat which is guided and impelled by means of chains which are anchored on each side of a stream, and pass over wheels on the vessel, the wheels being driven by stream…

A piece of ground between the wall of a place and the moat. Farrow.

A ditch or moat.

The scarp of a ditch or moat. "To clean the graffages." Miss Mitford.

of light bridge, used in sieges, for surprising a post or outwork which has but a narrow moat; a flying bridge.

; to abide continuosly; to have one's domicile of home; to remain for a long time. At the moated grange, resides this dejected Mariana. Shak. In no fixed place the happy souls reside. Dryden.

A moat with water in it; also, a small stream; a runlet. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.