Postern Gate - A side or less important gate into a castle; usually for peacetime use by pedestrians Prow - Acute-angled projection. Puddled - Made waterproof.
Postern A secondary door. Potsherd or Potshard A fragment of broken pottery that has been discarded by an earlier civilisation.
Postern Gate: a secondary gate or door often located at the rear of the castle. Putlog Hole: a hole intentionally left in the surface of a wall for insertion of a horizontal pole Ram: battering ram ...
postern - a small gate in the rear of a fort or castle tailboard, tailgate - a gate at the rear of a vehicle; can be lowered for loading tail gate - a gate downstream from a lock or canal that is used to control the flow of water at the lower end ...
Postern small doorway useful for entering or leaving a castle after the main gates had been closed Put-log ...
Postern tower: A tower which was used to defend as well as sometimes incorporating the postern gate. See postern. Precinct: The space enclosed by fortified walls. See bailey, enceinte.
Sally-port - A postern gate or passage underground from the inner to the outer works of a fortification. Sally-port mycenae Saḷmonica - Spanish term for solomonic column, much used in Spanish Baroque architecture.
Postern - a small secondary doorway in a tower or curtain wall, usually for peacetime use by pedestrians. Postern Gate - a side or less important gate into a castle; usually for peacetime use by pedestrians. Prow - acute-angled projection.
Upright support in a structure.PosternSmall gateway at the back of a building, especially a castle or gatehouse, or to the side of a larger entrance door or gate.Postmodernism ...
At Pevensey (Anderida) a small postern on the north side of the Roman walls was laid bare in 1906-1907, in which the passage curves in the thickness of the wall, and from a width admitting two men abreast narrows so that one alone could block it.
See also: Door, Castle, House, Frame, Ground
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