Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The puddling beaten in behind the stonework of a mining-shaft built up through abed of quicksand.
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Examples
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After doing Industrial Security in some of the roughest English Industrial Towns, we found that "moating" vulnerable doors and walls against heavy equipment traffic was a great help in preventing the equipment from prizing open doors, or more simply being run backwards through the doors and walls.
SurvivalBlog.com 2009
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Kurdish Shepherd in Kurdistan moating near Qandil area
WN.com - Articles related to Calgary man among 30 dead in Iraq hotel blaze 2010
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Kurdish Shepherd in Kurdistan moating near Qandil area
WN.com - Articles related to Calgary man among 30 dead in Iraq hotel blaze 2010
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Kurdish Shepherd in Kurdistan moating near Qandil area
WN.com - Articles related to Calgary man among 30 dead in Iraq hotel blaze 2010
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Kurdish Shepherd in Kurdistan moating near Qandil area
WN.com - Articles related to Calgary man among 30 dead in Iraq hotel blaze 2010
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Kurdish Shepherd in Kurdistan moating near Qandil area
WN.com - Articles related to Calgary man among 30 dead in Iraq hotel blaze 2010
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One of their mutts ill-advisedly chased the deviant, and by the time the owner caught up, the man had engaged the pet in some hot heritage dry moating.
The Register 2010
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Kurdish Shepherd in Kurdistan moating near Qandil area
WN.com - Articles related to Calgary man among 30 dead in Iraq hotel blaze 2010
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Kurdish Shepherd in Kurdistan moating near Qandil area
WN.com - Articles related to Calgary man among 30 dead in Iraq hotel blaze 2010
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Kurdish Shepherd in Kurdistan moating near Qandil area
WN.com - Articles related to Calgary man among 30 dead in Iraq hotel blaze 2010
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