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Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Covert-waynoun
It is, in fortification, a space of ground level with the field, on the edge of the ditch, three or four fathom broad, ranging quite round the half moons, or other works toward the country. One of the greatest difficulties in a siege is to make a lodgment on the covert-way, because usually the besieged pallisade it along the middle, and undermine it on all sides. It is sometimes called the corridor, and sometimes the counter-scarp, because it is on the edge of the scarp. John Harris
Etymology: from covert and way.
Wikipedia
Covert Way
Covert Way is the only Local Nature Reserve in the London Borough of Enfield. It is also part of the Hadley Wood Golf Course and Covert Way Field Site of Borough Importance for Nature Conservation, Grade I, and it has an area of 7 hectares. It is on the southern border of Enfield between the road named Covert Way and Monken Hadley Common in Barnet. Part of the site is semi-deciduous woodland which has woodpeckers and muntjac deer, and butterflies including white-letter and purple hairstreaks. In grassland areas there are the rare adder's-tongue fern and the locally scarce four-spot orb weaver spider.
Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
covert way
Is a road or broad path outside the fosse or moat of a fortified place, between the counterscarp and the glacis. It is usually about 30 feet wide, and sunk so far below the crest of the glacis that soldiers standing upon it cannot be seen by the besiegers; hence the name. The covert way is broad enough to allow troops to form on it, either to act defensively or make sorties; and to increase this accommodation enlarged portions, called places of arms, are made at certain spots.
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of covert way in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of covert way in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
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