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
The Mexicans went over the low wall in an unbroken stream, and they crowded through the sallyport by hundreds.
From The Texan Scouts A Story of the Alamo and Goliad by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler
Some entered with them pell mell through the sallyport, others stormed the bastion, and others scrambled over the curtain.
From Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete by Washington Irving
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 Bret Harte
Then they started, but were halted at the "sallyport," and when they exhibited to the officer-of-the-day their passes from the regular army lieutenant, he presented to them the order from the adjutant general.
From Personal Recollections of a Cavalryman With Custer's Michigan Cavalry Brigade in the Civil War by James Harvey Kidd
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