sallyport
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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After being marched out of the SUV, the agents brought Cardenas into a sallyport, a secured entry-exit point with multi-stage doors.
From BusinessWeek • Mar. 17, 2011
Lieutenants Willoughby, Forrest, Rayner, and Conductor Buckley survived the explosion, and effected their retreat in the confusion through a small sallyport on the river face.
From In Times of Peril by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
Heavy doors opened in front of me as I passed the sallyport and the grassgrown courtyard.
From The Collectors by Mather, Frank Jewett
IV Soft down the line of darkened battlements, Bright on each lattice of the barrack walls, Where the low arching sallyport indents, Seen through its gloom beyond, the moonbeam falls.
From Complete Poetical Works by Harte, Bret
In the outwork was a sallyport corresponding to the postern of the castle, and the whole was surrounded by a strong palisade.
From Ivanhoe by Scott, Walter, Sir
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