Definition of "moating" []

• The puddling beaten in behind the stonework of a mining-shaft built up through abed of quicksand. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "After doing Industrial Security in some of the roughest English Industrial Towns, we found that "moating" vulnerable doors and walls against heavy equipment traffic was a great help in preventing the equipment from prizing open doors, or more simply being run backwards through the doors and walls."
• "One of their mutts ill-advisedly chased the deviant, and by the time the owner caught up, the man had engaged the pet in some hot heritage dry moating."
• "Kurdish Shepherd in Kurdistan moating near Qandil area"