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Moat

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Moate

To void the excrement as a bird to mute

Rundel

A moat with water in it also a small stream a runlet

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Cunette

A drain trench in a ditch or moat called also cuvette

Ditch

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

Fosse

A ditch or moat

Graffage

The scarp of a ditch or moat

Pontvolant

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

Disclaimer

distinct ground of forfeiture of the lease or other tenancy, whether of land or tithe. See Vivian v. Moat, (1878) 16 Ch D 730, in which Fry, J., held landlords entitled to eject tenants without notice to

Fossagium

Fossagium, the duty levied on the inhabitants for repairing the moat or ditch round a fortified town.

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