Surrounded by water-filled ditch

Usage examples of moated.

It was called a chateau for it had once had the pretensions of a fortress, and was still the home of a noble family, yet in truth it was now little more than a large moated farmhouse, though it was undeniably a very pleasant farmhouse.

A biologically sound zoo enclosure—whether cage, pit, moated island, corral, terrarium, aviary or aquarium—is just another territory, peculiar only in its size and in its proximity to human territory.

The Shinsei na-ke Temple within whose heart the chamber lay was no more than a block from the moated castle of the Kunshin where Chiisai and the Dai-San were, at that moment, saying their farewells.

Perhaps she had used her powers to transport herself to the Kunshin's moated castle in the heart of Haneda.

We went round and down the path, and he unlocked the door to the cat house, which was at the centre of a moated island.

Close at the heels of his messenger came Cecil Barker, our friend of the moated Manor House.