The Collaborative International Dictionary
Covered \Cov"ered\ (k?v"?rd), a. Under cover; screened; sheltered; not exposed; hidden.
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.
Wiktionary
n. 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.
Usage examples of "covered way".
The orangery, which was at the other end, led by a covered way to the outhouses of the châ.
It had a covered way under the snow, through which only could it be entered, and it had bastions and towers and openings to fire from, and a great many other things for which there are no names in military books.
We can make a covered way with green cowhides on top and some sandbags.
We could retrace our steps and explore the other end of the covered way, though it ran directly opposite from where we wanted to go.
A narrow track across it had been trampled clear by many feet, leading from the mouth of Royal Wynd, the covered way that connected castle and town.
He nodded and we plunged into the maelstrom that swirled around the dark mouth of the covered way that led down into the first of the souks.