Nounouter moat (of a castle)

Nouncanal

Nouninner moat; moat within the castle walls

Nouncanal

Nounfish pond (artificially stocked); fishing pond

Expressions (phrases, clauses, etc.), Adverb (fukushi)inquisitively; pryingly; nosily; thoroughly; persistently; through-and-through

Nounpocket gopher

Nouncanal; waterway; ditch

Nounside of a moat

Noundry moat

Nounascending trench or pathway cut into a naturally-occurring slope

Nounmoat; horizontal trench

Noundigging for sweet potatoes (esp. as an outing) · country bumpkin; yokel

Nounirrigation ditch

Nounkobori; swimming while wearing armor

Nounburrowing owl (Athene cunicularia)

Nounman-made water channel (e.g. round a castle); artificial trench; moat

Noun, Suru verbdigging deeply (below the surface); mining deep · probing deeply (issue, problem); investigating thoroughly · deepening relations

Godan verb with 'ku' ending, Transitive verbto dig through; to drill into; to excavate

Godan verb with 'su' endingto dig up messily

Godan verb with 'su' ending, Transitive verbto dig up; to turn up; to tear up · to rake up (e.g. old scandal); to dig over

Noun(lucky) find; bargain; good buy; treasure trove

Godan verb with 'su' ending, Transitive verbto work out (a mine); to exhaust (vein of ore)

Expressions (phrases, clauses, etc.), Ichidan verbto remove obstacles in the way of one's objective; to take an indirect approach; to fill in the outer moat

Nounleaving someone behind; abandoning someone; marooning someone

Expressions (phrases, clauses, etc.), Godan verb with 'ru' endingto be clear of obstacles in the way of one's objective