The puddling beaten in behind the stonework of a mining-shaft built up through abed of quicksand.(noun)
The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)
Use "moating" in a sentence
"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"