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ˈsallyport
[f. sally n.1 + port n.3]
1. Fortif. An opening in a fortified place for the passage of troops when making a sally; sometimes used for ‘postern’. Also transf. and fig.
1649G. Daniel Trinarch., Hen. IV cccxii, Soe lyes the Worme, safe in her treeble hedge And eats the Purple Garden, ere wee find Her Sally-Ports. 1651Cleveland Poems 3 My slippery soul had quit the fort, But that she stopt the Salley-port. 1688J. S. Fortification 69 Little Ports are made in the middle of the Courtains..called Sally-Ports. 1694Congreve Double-Dealer iv. v, Were you provided for an Escape? Hold, Madam, you have no more holes to your Burrough, I'll stand between you and this Sally-Port. 1704Lond. Gaz No. 4008/2 The rest made their Escape out of a Sally-Port. 1802C. James Milit. Dict., Sally-ports, or postern-gates..are those underground passages, which lead from the inner to the outward works. 1819Scott Ivanhoe xxx, In the outwork was a sallyport corresponding to the postern of the castle. 1859F. A. Griffiths Artil. Man. (1862) 261 The Sallyports are openings cut in the glacis... They are used in making sallies from the covered way.
attrib.1799Wellington in Gurw. Desp. (1837) I. 36 Tippoo Sultaun's body was discovered in the sallyport gateway.
2. (See quot. 1867.)
1753Chambers Cycl. Supp., Sally-port, in a fire ship, is a great opening in her side..for the men to escape by, when they have..fired their train. 1769Falconer Dict. Marine (1780) s.v. Fire-ship. 1867 Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Sally⁓port,..a large port on each quarter of a fire-ship, out of which the officers and crew make their escape into the boats... Also, the entering port of a three-decker.
3. A landing-place at Portsmouth set apart for the use of men-of-war's boats (Adm. Smyth).
1814Jane Austen Mansf. Park III. vii. 161 The three boys..determined to see their brother..to the salley-port. 1833Marryat P. Simple iv, The porter wheeled my chest down to the Sally Port. 1836― Midsh. Easy xi, After which hour the sally-port is only opened by special permission. |