sally port
a gateway permitting the passage of a large number of troops at a time.
a postern.
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How to use sally port in a sentence
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!
The Last of the Mohicans | James Fenimore CooperAn underground sally-port opening into the moat, which was a dry one, is reached by steps leading from the castle yard.
Yorkshire Painted And Described | Gordon HomeThe principal entrance is on the south-east side, and directly opposite it is a sally-port.
A Yacht Voyage Round England | W.H.G. KingstonAt the same moment the two crept quickly across the area and vanished in the darkness of the sally port.
A Cadet's Honor | Upton Sinclair
Mark and Texas were seated on the steps of barracks when the Parson came through the sally port.
A Cadet's Honor | Upton Sinclair
British Dictionary definitions for sallyport
/ (ˈsælɪˌpɔːt) /
an opening in a fortified place from which troops may make a sally
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