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moating|ˈməʊtɪŋ| The puddling beaten in behind the stonework of a mining shaft built up through a bed of quicksand.
1830Brewster's Edin. Encycl. XIV. 338/2 The ashler and moating are progressively carried up... The water..is kept back by the clay moating. 1839in Ure Dict. Arts 970. |