sally-port

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Soon from under the arched sally-port two companies of cadets were seen issuing on the double-quick.

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  1. In fortification, a gate or a passage to afford free egress to troops in making a sally. The name is applied to the postern leading from under the rampart into the ditch; or in more modern use to a cutting through the glacis, by which a sally may be made through the covered way. See diagram under barbican. At a small distance from it [a rocky hill] on one side there is a sally port, cut down through the rock to the sea. Pococke, Description of the East, II. ii. 26. The direction taken by Hawk-eye soon brought the travellers to the level of the plain, nearly opposite to a sallyport in the western curtain of the fort. J. F. Cooper, Last of Mohicans, xiv
  2. A large port on each quarter of a fire-ship, for the escape of the crew into boats when the train is fired.

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