spec. Fortification. A passage or walkway within the defensive works of a castle, town, etc. Chiefly in covered-way at covered, adj. 6, covert way n.…
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| 释义 | society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > earthwork or rampart > [noun] > covered ways (5) way1481 spec. Fortification. A passage or walkway within the defensive works of a castle, town, etc. Chiefly in covered-way at covered, adj. 6, covert way n.… corridor1591 Fortification. The continuous path that surrounds the fortifications of a place, on the outside of the moat and protected by the glacis; the covered… covert way1591 Fortif. covert way n. = covered, adj. way. caponier1683 ‘A covered passage across the ditch of a fortified place, for the purpose either of sheltering communication with outworks or of affording a flanking… covered-way1685 Sheltered, protected, screened; spec. in Fortification †covered flank, covered-way (formerly covert-way; see covert, adj. 1b): see quots. |
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