Moat vs Mott - What's the difference?
moat | mott |
A deep, wide defensive ditch, normally filled with water, surrounding a fortified habitation.
An aspect of a business which makes it more "defensible" from competitors, either because of the nature of its products, services, franchise or other reason.
(UK, slang) A prostitute.
(Dublin, slang) A girlfriend.
(US, chiefly Texas) A copse or small grove of trees, especially live oak or elm.
*about 1900 , O. Henry,
*:They were rolling southward on the International. The timber was huddling into little, dense green motts at rare distances before the inundation of the downright, vert prairies. This was the land of the ranches; the domain of the kings of the kine.
