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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
First recorded in 1640–50
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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.
From The Daily Beast
Throw open the sally-port; to the field, Sixtieths, to the field; pull not a trigger, lest ye kill my lambs!
From Project Gutenberg
An underground sally-port opening into the moat, which was a dry one, is reached by steps leading from the castle yard.
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The principal entrance is on the south-east side, and directly opposite it is a sally-port.
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At the same moment the two crept quickly across the area and vanished in the darkness of the sally port.
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Mark and Texas were seated on the steps of barracks when the Parson came through the sally port.
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