堀

Meaning

堀 centers on a dug-out channel for water: a ditch, moat, or canal. All three meanings are specific types of excavated waterways.

• 堀ほり
  N3

  moat; fosse

• 堀江ほりえ

  canal

• 堀川ほりかわ

  canal

• 外堀そとぼり

  outer moat (of a castle)

• 堀切りほりきり

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

• 釣り堀つりぼり

  fish pond (artificially stocked); fishing pond

• 深堀りふかぼり

  digging deeply (below the surface); mining deep

• 内堀うちぼり

  inner moat; moat within the castle walls

• 空堀からぼり

  dry moat

• 堀端ほりばた

  side of a moat

• 堀割ほりわり

  canal; waterway; ditch

• 堀散らすほりちらす

  to dig up messily

• 外堀が埋まるそとぼりがうまる

  to be clear of obstacles in the way of one's objective

• 外堀を埋めるそとぼりをうめる

  to remove obstacles in the way of one's objective; to take an indirect approach; to fill in the outer moat

• 小堀流こぼりりゅう

  kobori; swimming while wearing armor

• 横堀よこぼり

  moat; horizontal trench

• 用水堀ようすいぼり

  irrigation ditch

• 竪堀たてぼり

  ascending trench or pathway cut into a naturally-occurring slope

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