postern

1. n. Originally, a back door or gate; a private entrance; hence, any small door or gate. Source: opted

2. n. A subterraneous passage communicating between the parade and the main ditch, or between the ditches and the interior of the outworks. Source: opted

3. a. Back; being behind; private. Source: opted

4. n. a small gate in the rear of a fort or castle Source: wordnet

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. Source: webster

6. A subterraneous passage communicating between the parade andthe main ditch, or between the ditches and the interior of theoutworks. Mahan. Source: adambom

7. n:100 n. a small gate in the rear of a fort or castle Source: ecdict

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