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covered way en · NOUN

Meanings

  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.

Forms

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covered ways Number=Plur lexicographic
covert-way alternative lexicographic

Relateds

porte cochère · portcullis · covered bridge · portico

Translations (2)

fi katettu jalkakäytävä (roofed walkway) · fi katvetie (corridor along the top of the counterscarp)