covered way

English

Alternative forms
  • covert-way

Noun

covered way (plural covered ways)

  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.
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