4 Words to use with moats

"This young knight was at the moat bridge near Castleman's House under the Wall talking with a burgher maid, Fräulein Castleman.

For the walls being of brick, double and of great thickness, with a deep moat intervening, could be neither shaken down nor dug through and consequently Tigranes was not lending them assistance.[-7-]

At a far distance on the Vettern, it looks as if it still stood in all its splendour; near, in moonlight nights, it appears the same unchanged edifice, for the fathom-thick walls yet remain; the carvings over the windows and gates stand forth in light and shade, and the moat round about, which is only separated from the Vettern by the narrow carriage road, takes the reflection of the immense building as a mirrored image.

Perhaps, too, we were trying to leave behind us the moat-stench that the water had merely reduced, not washed away.

4 Words to use with  moats