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Moate

To void the excrement as a bird to mute

A drain trench in a ditch or moat called also cuvette

fortress In the latter sense it is called also a moat or a fosse

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A ditch or moat

The scarp of a ditch or moat

A deep trench around the rampart of a castle or other fortified place sometimes filled with water a ditch

surprising a post or outwork which has but a narrow moat a flying bridge

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

other tenancy, whether of land or tithe. See Vivian v. Moat, (1878) 16 Ch D 730, in which Fry, J., held

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

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