postern
- n a small gate in the rear of a fort or castle
- In any fortress there are of course postern gates through which the sly slip in.
- Perhaps spring will find some of these doctors in French Syria with Weygand's Army, ready to stem a Russian march into Bessarabia, or to drive at Germany through the postern gate .
- Upon being prompted, however, he went on: "Behind shut the postern, the lights sank to rest.