• Motte

    Origin

    From Old French motte ("mound, hillcock").

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    motte

    (plural mottes)
    1. a raised earth mound, often topped with a wooden or stone structure and surrounded with a ditch
    2. (US, dialect) A clump of trees in a prairie.

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