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/kˈəvərd brɪdʒ/ Listen

Covered bridge

noun

A bridge whose passageway is protected by a roof and enclosing sides.

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"Covered bridge" Quotes from Famous Books

... He tried to get Frederick Douglass to join him, but Douglass refused, and, at last, on the night of Sunday, October 16, 1859, at the head of a little band of twenty-two men, whites and negroes, he moved on the arsenal. They reached the covered bridge over the Potomac without adventure, crossed until they were near the Virginia side, seized the solitary sentinel who challenged them, broke down the armory gate with a sledge hammer, seized the remainder of the guard, and a few ...

— American Men of Mind • Burton E. Stevenson

... design. The visitor should now return to the cathedral in order to inspect the Vicars' Close, one of the unique features of Wells. The flight of stairs which gives entrance to the chapter-house leads also by a covered bridge—known as the Chain Gate—across the street into the Close, and thus forms a private passage whereby the singers may pass from the church to their quarters. The public have to find their way by returning to the ...

— Somerset • G.W. Wade and J.H. Wade

Words linked to "Covered bridge" : span, bridge