Usually means: Small, fortified keep or tower.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. motte: Merriam-Webster
  2. motte: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. motte, motte: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. motte: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Motte, motte: Wordnik
  6. motte: Wiktionary
  7. motte: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. motte (mott): The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. motte: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Motte, motte: Dictionary.com
  11. Motte (disambiguation), Motte: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Motte: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. motte: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. Motte: Rhymezone
  15. Motte (f), Motte: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. motte: FreeDictionary.org
  17. motte: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  18. motte: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. motte: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Motte: Castle Terms
  2. MOTTE: Acronym Finder

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. motte: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. motte: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Motte)

noun:  A surname.
noun:  A raised earth mound, often topped with a wooden or stone structure and surrounded with a ditch.
noun:  An argument which is uncontroversial and easy to defend (in the context of a motte and bailey fallacy).
noun:  Alternative form of mott [(Texas) A copse or small grove of trees, especially live oak or elm.]

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