Mo > References for ‘moat’

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[206] 2) The second meaning of the word [...] one such fort-city. Beyond the moat there were the ramparts. Within [...] that time most of the cities had a moat or a ditch around them, whether [...] village. The other side of this moat or boundary limit was the jurisdiction [...] to flee to the other side of the moat or ditch in order to escape from [...] places where there is no surrounding moat or ditch, we say “he has [...] someone passes a little out of reach.

[207] Previously I said that even when there were no ramparts within the moat or ditch, the people used to consider what was inside the moat as a fort (gaŕ). There [...] used to be called karvat́a.