what is moats
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Moat A moat is a deep, broad ditch, either dry or filled with water, that is dug and surrounds a castle, fortification, building or town, historically to provide it with a preliminary line of defence. In some places moats evolved into more extensive water defences, including natural or artificial lakes, dams and sluices. In older fortifications, such as hillforts, they are usually referred to simply as ditches, although the function is similar. In later periods, moats or water defences may be largely ornamental.
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Parts of a Castle An inner courtyard of a castle, sometimes called a Bailey. A section at the base of a castle wall that is angled in such a manner to make dropped stones bounced away from the curtain wall and into the enemy. The batters also add strength to the base of the wall walk.
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- Definition of bastion. 1  1 : a projecting part of a fortification a bastion at each of the fort's five corners. 2  2 : a fortified area or position bombing island bastions. 3  3 : stronghold 2 the last bastion of academic standards — Amer. Scientist.
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Lagoon Lagoons are shallow, often elongated bodies of water separated from a larger body of water by a shallow or exposed shoal, coral reef, or similar feature.iver-mouth lagoons such as hapua were also used a source for mahinga kai (food gathering) by the Māori people. However, this is no longer the case due to catchment degradation which has resulted in lagoon deterioration.
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- stormwind stockade is a closely guarded prison built beneath the canals of stormwind city warden thelwater keeps watch over the stockade and the highly dangerous criminals who call it homerecently the inmates revolted overthrowing their guards and plunging the prison into a state of pandemoniumtormwind stockade is a closely guarded prison built beneath the canals of stormwind city warden thelwater keeps watch over the stockade and the highly dangerous criminals who call it home
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Fortress A fortress is a building designed to be defended, which means it was very hard for enemies to get inside. Fortification kept the people inside safe.There is little difference between a fortress and a castle. Fortresses normally have thick stone walls, thicker but less tall than in castles so artillery cannot break them. There were very small windows, without glass, so that soldiers inside could fire out through them.ortification kept the people inside safe. There is little difference between a fortress and a castle. Fortresses normally have thick stone walls, thicker but less tall than in castles so artillery cannot break them. There were very small windows, without glass, so that soldiers inside could fire out through them.
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Behind Morningstar's Economic Moat Rating Then in 2002, we started explicitly rating companies by their economic moat--putting them into one of three buckets: either no economic moat (meaning they have no competitive advantage); narrow economic moat (meaning they may have something, but it's not going to last quite as long as the wide moat firms), and the third bucket and the best bucket are the [wide-moat] firms where we think the competitive advantage is going to last 20 years or greater.
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Moat Some of the earliest evidence of moats has been uncovered around ancient Egyptian castles. One example is at Buhen, a castle excavated in Nubia. Other evidence of ancient moats is found in the ruins of Babylon, and in reliefs from ancient Egypt, Assyria, and other cultures in the region.
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Slurry pit A slurry pit, also known as a farm slurry pit, slurry tank, slurry lagoon or slurry store, is a hole, dam, or circular concrete structure where farmers gather all their animal waste together with other unusable organic matter, such as hay and water run off from washing down dairies, stables, and barns, in order to convert it, over a lengthy period ...
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Average cost of voice and acting lessons??? For what it is worth... A few years ago, when my D was in high school, here in Vermont, her voice teacher prefered not to typically give private lessons but to teach in very small groups for 90 minute lessons (though each person got to work individually during part of the lesson on their own songs).
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vassal vassal. ( 1 in the feudal system) a person granted the use of land, in return for rendering homage, fealty, and usually military service or its equivalent to a lord or other superior; feudal tenant. 2  a person holding some similar relation to a superior; a subject, subordinate, follower, or retainer. 3  a servant or slave.
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Parts of a Castle An inner courtyard of a castle, sometimes called a Bailey. Basilica. A section at the base of a castle wall that is angled in such a manner to make dropped stones bounced away from the curtain wall and into the enemy.The batters also add strength to the base of the wall walk. Batters. Fighting position on the top of the castle wall or tower.op of a wall or tower that has lower sections (crenels) for the purpose of giving a castle defender a position to fight or fire through. This protective stonework is the classic outline of the top of a castle wall. Crenelations. (Also called embrasures) Low sections of the crenelations.
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Castle A castle (from Latin: castellum) is a type of fortified structure built in Europe and the Middle East during the Middle Ages by nobility. Scholars debate the scope of the word castle, but usually consider it to be the private fortified residence of a lord or noble.
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- The battlements are the top sections of the outer wall of the castle. Now to access these battlements the archers would stand on a walk way that was a wall in it's own right. This walkway is built right up against the outer wall and is called the Rampart.rrow Loops-These were slots in the walls and structures that were used to shoot arrows through. They came in a wide variety of shapes and sizes. Ashlar-Blocks of smooth square stone.
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Marriott Brands -- All the Hotels Under the Marriott International Inc. Umbrella There are 19 brands in total under the Marriott umbrella, and they are expanding all over the world, from Colombia to China, Nigeria, and more. Marriott owns around 4,200 properties in 80 countries, and those numbers continue to rise each year.
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Battlement Thus a defensive building might be designed and built with battlements, or a manor house might be fortified by adding battlements, where no parapet previously existed, or cutting crenellations into its existing parapet wall. The solid widths between the crenels are called merlons (also cops or kneelers).A wall with battlements is said to be crenelated or embattled. Battlements on walls have protected walkways (chemin de ronde) behind them. On tower or building tops, the (often flat) roof is used as the protected fighting platform.n medieval England a licence to crenellate granted the holder permission to fortify their property. Such licences were granted by the king, and by the rulers of the counties palatine within their jurisdictions, i.e. by the Bishops of Durham and the Earls of Chester and after 1351 by the Dukes of Lancaster.
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- This brings us to another point: in most cases, moats (also called a ditch or fosse) were dry rather than wet. A moat, in simplest terms, is a trench surrounding the base of a fortification's wall, meant to disrupt or slow down attacks upon the walls.
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- Powell: Shut your mouth and listen. Moats: Shut my mouth? Is that how you talk to me, too? Powell: Shut your mouth and listen. If you want to keep this going, I’ll just put you in handcuffs, and I’ll take you to jail for running a red light. Moats: OK. All right. Powell: I can do that. Moats: OK. Powell: State law says I can. Moats: Yes, sir. Go ahead.
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Definition of vicious That movie was so vicious. See more words with the same meaning: good, okay, cool, awesome, fun. Last edited on Feb 18 2013. Submitted by Tim from MA, USA on May 08 2002. adj. cool, awesome, or amazing. As far as I know not many people outside of the dc metropolitan area use it, so it must be of local origin. That new movie was vicious.
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- Home Page. Welcome to the Herons' Moor Academy Website. We are a large modern Primary school situated in Locking Castle. There is a very strong sense of community here at Herons' Moor with pupils and adults working closely together to benefit the learning potential of every learner.
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Ditch Ditches at the Ouse Washes nature reserve. Waterplants growing in a ditch in the Netherlands, showing Sagittaria sagittifolia to the right. A ditch is a small to moderate depression created to channel water. A ditch can be used for drainage, to drain water from low-lying areas, alongside roadways or fields, or to channel water from a more distant source for plant irrigation. A trench is a long narrow ditch.
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- Moats are important from an investment perspective because any time a company develops a useful product or service, it isn't long before other firms try to capitalize on that opportunity by producing a similar--if not better--product.
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Medieval Castle Defence: Defending a Castle Many castles were surrounded by man made ditches which were then filled with water, and turned into moats. Incidentally, the water in the moat would have been truly disgusting – it was stagnant and all the waste from the castle toilets was tipped straight in.
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Castle Bailey: This is a courtyard or open space surrounded by walls.The walls that make up the Bailey are also considered to be part of the Bailey. A castle could have several. Sometimes they were called the upper bailey and lower bailey or the west bailey and east bailey.
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Castle Castle - Common features. 1  A motte was an earthen mound with a flat top.  2 Motte refers to the mound alone, but it was often surmounted by a fortified structure, such as a keep, and the flat top would be surrounded by a palisade. [19] 3  A bailey, also called a ward, was a fortified enclosure.
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Frequently Asked Questions (Watch video of Buffett discussing brands and moats.) Our goal at Moat is to create products which help companies build and strengthen their brands online and ultimately fortify their moats. What are some benefits of Moat Ad Search? Transparency - Ads are transient; viewable one second and gone the next. Moat Ad Search provides a single location to easily find ads running on the Web. Media Insights - Whether you're an advertiser, a publisher or an agency, it's helpful to understand what ads are running where as you formulate your own campaigns.