SALLY PORT

Definition: SALLY PORT

SALLY PORT

1. (a) (Fort.) A postern gate, or a passage underground, from the inner to the outer works, to afford free egress for troops in a sortie. (b) (Naval) A large port on each quarter of a fireship, for the escape of the men into boats when the train is fired; a large port in an old-fashioned three-decker or a large modern ironclad.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Specialty Definition: SALLY PORT

Synonyms within Context: SALLY PORT

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Defense	Loophole, machicolation; sally port.
Egress	Outlet, vent, spout, tap, sluice, floodgate; pore; vomitory, outgate, sally port; way out; mouth, door; (opening); path; (way); conduit; airpipe.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Modern Translation: SALLY PORT

Language		Translations for "SALLY PORT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Bulgarian		врата за вилазки. (various references)

Pig Latin		allysay ortpay

Spanish		poterna (postern). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: SALLY PORT

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	Words within the letters "a-l-l-o-p-r-s-t-y"
	-1 letter: payrolls, postally.
	-2 letters: pallors, patrols, payroll, portals, protyls, psaltry, pyrolas.
	-3 letters: allots, alloys, atolls, lastly, orally, pallor, paltry, parols, partly, pastor, pastry, patrol, payors, platys, polars, portal, portly, postal, protyl, psylla, pyrola, raptly, royals, sporal, sporty, stroll, stylar, tolars, tolyls, trolls, trolly.
	-4 letters: allot, alloy, altos, aport, aptly, artsy, aryls, atoll, atopy, loral, lotas.
	Words containing the letters "a-l-l-o-p-r-s-t-y"
	+1 letter: pastorally.
	+2 letters: polycrystal.
	+3 letters: polycrystals.
	+4 letters: postcranially, superloyalist.
	+5 letters: aphoristically, blepharoplasty, isentropically, prosthetically, superloyalists.
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Domain	Definition
Military	Opening left in a parapet left as an entrance into an enclosed earthwork. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Saint Augustine, Fla. Sally port of Fort Marion. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

SALLY PORT

Definition: SALLY PORT

SALLY PORT

Specialty Definition: SALLY PORT

Military

Synonyms within Context: SALLY PORT

Defense

Egress

Photo Album: SALLY PORT

Modern Translation: SALLY PORT

Bulgarian

Pig Latin

Spanish

Anagrams: SALLY PORT

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