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n. A small rear gate, especially one in a fort or castle.

adj. Situated in the back or at the side.

n. A back-gate, backdoor, side entrance, or other gateway distinct from the main entrance.

n. By extension, a separate or hidden way in or out of a place, situation etc.

adj. Situated at the rear; posterior.

n. Originally, a back door or gate; a private entrance; hence, any small door or gate.

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

adj. Back; being behind; private.

n. A back door or gate; a private entrance; hence, any small door or gate. See cuts under castle and barbican.

n. In fortification, a covered passage closed by a gate, usually in the angle of the flank of a bastion, or in that of the curtain, or near the orillion, descending into the ditch.

n. a small gate in the rear of a fort or castle

"IV. ii.91 (101,4) [that spirit's possess'd with haste, That wounds the unresisting postern with these strokes] The line is irregular, and the _unresisting postern_ so strange an expression, that want of measure, and want of sense, might justly raise suspicion of an errour, yet none of the later editors seem to have supposed the place faulty, except sir Tho."

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