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Meanings of dry moat in English

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Usage of dry moat in English
1
There is a dry moat, which is lined with stonework.
A March on London: Being a Story of Wat Tyler's Insurrection
2
Some workmen were lowering a man on ropes into the depths of the dry moat.
A Game of Thrones
3
He plunged down the ridge into the reavers' dry moat and suddenly felt a nauseating wrench.
Wizardborn
4
They rolled through the dry moat, over a slight rise, and continued on toward the river.
Servant of a dark god
5
The fortress was encircled by a dry moat that had a dilapidated wooden bridge spanning it.
Wild Cards IV: Aces Abroad
6
The wall was low on this side, but Flor remembered it towered high above the dry moat.
Millennium
7
It served as a dry moat; the river had to fill it before reaching the levee itself.
Rising tide: the great mississippi flood of 1927 and how it chan...
8
The Grail Knights withdrew, over the great drawbridge spanning the dry moat in front of the fortress gate.
Surrender to the will of the night
9
But when she looked, the white knight was gone, the bridge across the dry moat down but undefended.
A clash of kings
10
Together they buried the knights at the bottom of the dry moat at the back of the ruined castle.
The Outlaw of Torn
11
Tonight, at the base of the outer wall, guards with dogs patrolled the dry moat, expecting some Sleth attack.
Servant of a dark god
12
There was just one, and it stood over against the castle hill, separated from it only by the dry moat.
The Making of an American
13
These may have occupied the position of the present dry moat that defends the castle on two of its three sides.
The Evolution of an English Town
14
The dry moat surrounding Maegor's Holdfast was three feet deep in snow, the iron spikes that lined it glistening with frost.
A Dance with Dragons
15
Our men, wet to the skin, sheltered themselves from the smoke and the cold wind in the dry moat outside the walls.
With British Guns in Italy: A Tribute to Italian Achievement
16
It stood on the brow of a hill, overlooking a wide plain, and was defended by a dry moat and massive walls.
For The Admiral
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United States of America
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United Kingdom
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