Definition of Postern. Meaning of Postern. Synonyms of Postern

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Definition of Postern

Postern
Postern Pos"tern, n. [OF. posterne, posterle, F. poterne, fr. L. posterula, fr. posterus coming after. See Posterior.] 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.
Postern
Postern Pos"tern, a. Back; being behind; private. ``The postern door.' --Dryden.

Meaning of Postern from wikipedia

- A postern is a secondary door or gate in a fortification such as a city wall or castle curtain wall. Posterns were often located in a concealed location...
- Postern of Fate is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie that was first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in October 1973 and in...
- Postern Gap (63°15′S 55°59′W / 63.250°S 55.983°W / -63.250; -55.983Coordinates: 63°15′S 55°59′W / 63.250°S 55.983°W / -63.250; -55.983) is a p****...
- Straits. The codename for the main operations to take Lae was Operation Postern. Planned as part of wider operations to eventually secure the Huon Peninsula...
- The Tower Hill Postern was a small fortified entrance (postern) at the eastern terminal point to the London Wall, at the junction of the Wall and the...
- one of the Gates of the Old City of Jerusalem. It was built as a small postern gate in the 16th century by the Ottomans, first widened for vehicular traffic...
- collection) N or M? (1941 novel) By the Pricking of My Thumbs (1968 novel) Postern of Fate (1973 novel) Tuppence appears as a charismatic, impulsive, and...
- Shottle and Postern is a civil parish in the Amber Valley district of Derbyshire, England. The parish contains six listed buildings that are recorded...
- down the external walls of a castle and into the surrounding ditch. A postern is a secondary door or gate in a concealed location, usually in a fortification...
- Wirksworth in Derbyshire. The po****tion of the civil parish (Shottle and Postern) at the 2011 Census was 266. In Norman times, the manor of Shottle, referred...