Covered-way

Covered-way is a space 11 yards wide in most parts, outside the ditch of a fortress, between the Counterscarp (q.v.) and the Glacis (q.v.). The latter is arranged for musketry in the usual manner, and gives cover to soldiers standing upon the covered-way, which, being also protected from enfilade fire by traverses, is convenient for sentries, and for the passage of troops to the enlarged portions, called places of arms, where they assemble for making sorties. See FORTIFICATION.