Usually means: Protected path near defensive walls.
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  1. covered way: Merriam-Webster
  2. covered way: Wordnik
  3. covered way: Wiktionary
  4. Covered way: Dictionary.com
  5. covered way: FreeDictionary.org
  6. Covered way: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. covered way: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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  1. Covered way: Dictionary of Military Architecture
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Definitions from Wiktionary (covered way)

noun:  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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