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cunette

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Noun — A narrow ditch cut into a moat, used to drain water away or to slow down attackers.

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Comes from French cunette (also possibly lacunette), from Italian cunetta ("cunette"), said to derive from lacunetta, a diminutive of lacuna ("ditch; lagoon; gap"), from Latin lacūna ("hole, pit; cavity, cleft, hollow, opening; gap, void"), from lacus ("lake"), from Proto-Indo-European *lókus ("lake, pool").

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