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Definition of Moatlike
1. suggestive of a moat [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Moatlike
Literary usage of Moatlike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Hardy Country: Literary Landmarks of the Wessex Novels by Charles George Harper (1904)
"The old drive led round to the other side of the mansion, where it is divided
from the meadows by a moatlike cut in the Mill Bourne, now, however, ..."
2. On the Gorilla Trail by Mary Hastings Bradley (1922)
"... was on a high plateau, cleared like a parade ground for fear of lion and
encircled by a moatlike ravine through whose jungles rushed the ..."
3. The Hyphen by Margaret Blake, E.P. Dutton (Firm), Lida Clara Schem (1920)
"His enthusiasm required that he should burn away barriers, leap moatlike ditches
and take hundred-feet hurdles for the glorification of the New Jesus. ..."
4. Geology and Mineral Resources of the Judith Mountains of Montana by Walter Harvey Weed, Louis Valentine Pirsson (1898)
"and flows around it in the moatlike or encircling valley. From the high porphyry
point southeast of it the structure of the anticline is clearly revealed ..."
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