Moat is valid Scrabble Word

Is moat a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is moat valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

4 letters word
6 points in Scrabble
7 points in WWF

Definitions for MOAT in dictionary:

VERB:

NOUN:

a deep, wide ditch surrounding a castle, fort, or town, typically filled with water and intended as a defence against attack.
deep wide ditch, esp round a castle
A deep trench around the rampart of a castle or other fortified place, sometimes filled with water; a ditch.
ditch dug as a fortification and usually filled with water

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to surround with a moat (a water-filled trench)

Words related to MOAT

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Words that contain MOAT

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How to use MOAT in a sentence

In those days the Ruthven was a broad river, flowing swiftly down to the Earn, and forming, by reason of a moat, an effective barrier against attack.
So now for three days he had set there at the foot of the tower and beside the moat, sunk in sorrow like to one who had gone out of his mind.
It appears even deeper than is actually the case, and resembles an enormous chasm or moat, separating two different regions of the earth.
And why is it called his castle? Is it because it is defended by a wall, because it is surrounded with a moat? No, it may be nothing more than a straw-built shed.
An engraving of the Hall and moat, after Stanfield, forms an illustration to the third volume of the 1834 edition of Crabbe.
I lay down on the side of the moat for five minutes.
And now there is this new trouble about the Moat Farm.
It would not bend, and the tough roots would not give, so beneath the weight of the gale the big tree broke in two like a straw, and its spreading top was whirled into the moat.
The old mansion was a low, venerable building, occupying a considerable space of ground, which was surrounded by a deep moat.
The town was surrounded and protected by a broad and deep moat, filled from the river.

From this Chapel a door in the wall opened on to a path that led straight over the drawbridge across the moat to the Manor House.
I could run you a moat around the back, and keep it supplied with fresh water all the year round.
Skirting the castle moat she led him up the short slope of the Gomizaka.
A little castle or miniature fortress must have crowned it once, for the height was entirely circled by an ancient moat.
The Cologne River joined the moat at the north end of this tract of ground and flowed on by the castle wall to the Somme.
A small building, surrounded by a moat, is said to occupy the site of a manor house given to Lord Monteagle for bringing about the discovery of the Gunpowder Plot.
The moat had been cleaned out, and filled to the brim with water.
Cnut himself, with two others carrying the rope, advanced to the edge of the moat.
But he ordered the moat to be repaired, so that it could be filled and kept full, and he directed that a light draw-bridge should also be erected.
Defense took the form of an embankment and a water-filled moat which surrounded the early settlements and provided shelter for herdsman and farmers in case of emergencies.
It is the great moat which divides the north from the south.
The Moat was well provided with corn, and asked for our protection.
Separated from the palace by a moat and a wall is Prospect Hill, a charming elevation which serves as an imperial garden.
As he emerged from the woods he saw that the road led through the remains of an ancient wall, and across a bridge over a moat which was partly filled up.
Moat and parapet, tower, dungeon, and drawbridge, are all there, only awaiting the Mason of the future to translate them into actuality.
It is located on a peninsula, with the sea on three sides of it, with a lake and moat on the land side.

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