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• Moat Mount Open Space and Mote End Farm — Moat Mount Open Space is a Local Nature Reserve, Borough Grade II, in Mill Hill in the London Borough of Barnet. The site is an extensive area bounded by Barnet Way, Barnet Road and Hendon Wood Lane. It includes Barnet Gate Wood and Scratchwood… …   Wikipedia

• Moat Community College — Motto Maximising Our Achievements Together Established 1980 Type Comprehensive Principal …   Wikipedia

• Moat House, Sutton Coldfield — Moat House General information Type House Architectural style Jacobean Location Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham, England Coordinates …   Wikipedia

• Moat Lane Junction — was a railway junction in Montgomeryshire near to the village of Caersws in mid Wales. It was the junction where the Newtown and Machynlleth railway opened in 1863 diverged from the Llanidloes and Newtown Railway which opened four years earlier.… …   Wikipedia

• Moat on the Ledge: Live at Broughton Castle, August '81 — Moat on the Ledge Live album by Fairport Convention Released 1982 …   Wikipedia

• Moat — Moat, n. [OF. mote hill, dike, bank, F. motte clod, turf: cf. 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… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Moat — Moat, v. t. To surround with a moat. Dryden. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• moat — (n.) mid 14c., from O.Fr. mote mound, hillock, embankment; castle built on a hill (12c.; Mod.Fr. motte), from M.L. mota mound, fortified height, of unknown origin, perhaps from Gaulish mutt, mutta. Sense shifted in Norman French from the castle… …   Etymology dictionary

• moat — [mōt] n. [ME mote < OFr, orig., mound, embankment, prob. < Gmc * motta, heap of earth] a deep, broad ditch dug around a fortress or castle, and often filled with water, for protection against invasion vt. to surround with or as with a moat …   English World dictionary

• moat — [məut US mout] n [Date: 1300 1400; : Old French; Origin: mote, motte small hill (on which a castle was built) ] 1.) a deep wide hole, usually filled with water, dug around a castle as a defence 2.) a deep wide hole dug around an area used for… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• moat — [ mout ] noun count a deep wide hole, usually filled with water, that surrounds a castle as protection against attack a. a similar hole used for preventing animals from escaping in a ZOO …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English