Definitions for moat

moat moat

Spelling: [moht]
IPA: /moʊt/

Moat is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 38 anagrams from letters in moat (amot).

Definitions for moat

noun

  1. a deep, wide trench, usually filled with water, surrounding the rampart of a fortified place, as a town or a castle.
  2. any similar trench, as one used for confining animals in a zoo.

Origin of moat

1325-75; Middle English mote Old French: clod, mound, of obscure origin

Examples for moat

The brain is a castle and this is its moat, as experts have described it.

A moment later it rang home against the wall on my side of the moat.

The rectory was often surrounded by a moat, with an entrance protected by a gatehouse.

But yonder, ahead of him, something black lay athwart the moat.

If they searched the moat, indeed, my scheme must fail; but I did not think they would.

I should have done better to go down to the moat, and be silent.

But over the years, cloistered in their mountain keep, complete with moat, Bender and Patton became ever more reclusive.

Charley got me information about the fair, and the day before it, I set out for the moat.

Me she had not seen, nor did she till I darted out of my ambush, and leapt after Rupert into the moat.

A crimson splash of light fell on the moat on either side of him.

Word Value for moat
Scrable

6

Words with friends

7

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