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sally port
noun
- a gateway permitting the passage of a large number of troops at a time.
- a postern.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of sally port1
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Example Sentences
KSM enters the complex through a “Sally Port,” a series of gates designed to allow just one vehicle in at a time.
Throw open the sally-port; to the field, Sixtieths, to the field; pull not a trigger, lest ye kill my lambs!
An underground sally-port opening into the moat, which was a dry one, is reached by steps leading from the castle yard.
The principal entrance is on the south-east side, and directly opposite it is a sally-port.
At the same moment the two crept quickly across the area and vanished in the darkness of the sally port.
Mark and Texas were seated on the steps of barracks when the Parson came through the sally port.
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