moat

Parks and open spaces in Mandalay have turned into makeshift camps, as have the banks of the moat that runs around the palace.

In the centre of the town stand the handsome ruins of Rothesay Castle, surrounded by a moat.

Currently there is a large open space here, with an empty moat that is not original but was created in the 1960s.

A massive gate in that interior wall looks like something out of a medieval castle — all that’s missing is a moat and guards.

The notion that America was secured by two unbreachable moats, the Atlantic and the Pacific, was already about to be invalidated.