English Explanatory Dictionary

covered way

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. In a fortification, a corridor or banquette along the top of the counterscarp and covered by an embankment whose slope forms the glacis. It gives the garrison an open line of communication around the works, and a standing place beyond the ditch.
  2. A roofed walkway.

Word forms

covered way covered ways covert-way
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