Make your house your castle—and put a moat around it. That means leaving at least a foot of blank space between your home ...
The most important thing [is] trying to find a business with a wide and long-lasting moat around it … protecting a terrific economic castle with an honest lord in charge of the castle.
"If you say moat, everybody thinks of a castle with a big moat around it, as a defensive ditch ... symbolism of purity and the lady of the house, whose fidelity had to be protected, surrounded ...
The Victorian red-brick house, in Langton-by-Wragby ... orchard and vegetable patch, set around the original moat. Outbuildings include several workshops, garages, and a pigsty to the rear.