एक किले या महल के पीछे एक छोटा गेट

Noun:

चोर दर्वाज़ा, घर के पीछे के भाग का फाटक,

postern's Usage Examples:

Small postern door in the semicircular bastion, approached by flight of rockcut steps.

postern gateway which was not blocked until the 15th century.

postern gate was made in the wall, from which two roads ran eastward.

The guards conferred for a moment before one disappeared from the ramparts and emerged a few moments later at a small postern.

This postern was remarkably strong, having gates of oak, iron doors, and a heavy portcullis.

As to Ludgate there is reason to believe that if there was an opening there in Roman times it was merely a postern.

Five hundred yards to the east .of it an interesting postern was discovered in 1895 (Orsi, in Notizie degli scavi, 1893, 168), at the point where the wall leaves the edge of the plateau and begins to follow the sea-coast; and half a mile farther on we reach the deep gorge of S.

It is approached in a very circuitous way, either by a passage (Xaupn) leading from a side door in the main propylaeum or by another long passage which winds round the back cf the chief hall, and so leads by a long flight of steps, cut in the rock, to the little postern door in the semicircular bastion.

There is a small postern gate at L.

There is also a postern gate on the north side of the wall, and at its eastern extremity are two apertures in the thickness of the wall.

postern's Meaning':

a small gate in the rear of a fort or castle