Adjectives for Moat | Words to describe Moat
Wide
Great
Natural
Neglected
Continuous
Snow-Drifted
Deep
Enlarged
Black
Broad
Mile-Wide
Dried-Up
How do you describe Moat?
- 1. Roy reached over the battlement, and gazed across the black moat, trying to pierce the transparent darkness of the dull soft night. 🔊
- 2. Then they stood on the edge of the great moat, two hundred feet wide, twenty feet deep and bank full. 🔊
- 3. Old women of the people, little children of the people, saunter and gambol in the walled court or feed the ducks in the neglected moat. 🔊
- 4. A broad moat once surrounded the newer hall, but, as in most other instances, the water has long since given way to green turf. 🔊
- 5. While we have been digressing, the turtles have been dumped into the great moat that surrounds the fort, and, stretched upon the deck, the sable crew are fast asleep. 🔊
- 6. A horn sounded from within, the gate swung open, a drawbridge fell with a hideous creaking of machinery, and we passed in, twenty or thirty feet above the snow-drifted moat. 🔊
- 7. They went together to visit it and were all greatly interested in its ancient and foreign appearance; in the dried-up moat, the drawbridges, the massive arched entrance, dark under-ways and dungeons. 🔊
- 8. At that time, in 1598, this fortress was defended by seven curtains, six towers, bastions and caponieres, all protected by a wide and deep moat, into which poured the rising tide twice with each round of the clock. 🔊
- 9. These two branches of the river enclose an island a mile and a quarter long by 1,400 yards wide, and on this island, surrounded by a natural moat of swiftly flowing water, was the Dervish dem. 🔊
- 10. Last of all, close behind him, marched his friend, the Orakzai Pathan, and as they picked their way among the boulders across the mile-wide moat the two contrived to fall a little to the rear. 🔊
- 11. So the now dried-up moat she next crossed over with comfort, Where, by the side of the road, direct the well-fenced vine-yard, Rose with a steep ascent, its slope exposed to the sunshine. 🔊
