Thesaurus: postern

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1. n. Originally, a back door or gate; a private entrance; hence, any small door or gate.
2. n. A subterraneous passage communicating between the parade and the main ditch, or between the ditches and the interior of the outworks.
3. a. Back; being behind; private.
4. n. a small gate in the rear of a fort or castle
5. 1. Originally, a back door or gate; a private entrance; hence, any small door or gate. He by a privy postern took his flight. Spenser. Out at the postern, by the abbey wall. Shak. 2. (Fort.) A subterraneous passage communicating between the parade and the main ditch, or between the ditches and the interior of the outworks. Mahan. Back; being behind; private. "The postern door." Dryden.
6. A subterraneous passage communicating between the parade andthe main ditch, or between the ditches and the interior of theoutworks. Mahan.
7. n:100 n. a small gate in the rear of a fort or castle