Covered way

(Fort.)

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. See Illust. of Ravelin.

See also: Covered

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.