moatedadj.

1580 A. Saker Narbonus ii. 28 When it drewe towardes night, they approched to a Castell... This Castell was Moated, and in the Dikes they found very good Fish.

1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Triumph of Faith in tr. Deuine Weekes & Wks. 572 Elias Faith..Fier'd without fire his moated Sacrifice.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) iii. i. 266 There at the moated-Grange recides this deiected Mariana.

1676 J. Dryden Aureng-Zebe Ep. Ded. When he sees, he can hardly approach Greatness, but as a Moated Castle.

1748 S. Richardson Clarissa III. x. 81 To carry her against her will to old Antony's moated house.

1779 T. Forrest Voy. New Guinea 183 A broad and straight street... It is so well raised, as never to be overflowed; and is moated on both sides.

1830 Ld. Tennyson Mariana iii, in Poems 16 Till cold winds woke the grey-eyed morn About the lonely moated grange.

1852 H. Spencer Use & Beauty in Ess. (1891) II. 371 The mailed, moated, sentinelled security which was irksome to the nobles who needed it.

1903 A. Austin Flodden Field ii. 72 I would not be an hour with him alone, For all my vaunted moated maidenhood.

1975 J. G. Evans Environment Early Man Brit. Isles vii. 169 Moated sites are small, generally square or rectangular enclosures of single farmstead status with a surrounding water-filled ditch.

1996 Holiday Which? Mar. 99/2 The fourteenth-century moated manor house of Markenfield Hall..is well worth seeking out.