"posterne" meaning in Middle English

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      "posterne",
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      "poterne",
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      "externus",
      "externus#Latin"
    ],
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      "internus",
      "internus#Latin"
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      "posterla",
      "posterla#Latin"
    ],
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      "posterula",
      "posterula#Latin"
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      "posterus",
      "posterus#Latin"
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      "post",
      "post#Latin"
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      "Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/pós"
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      "-ula",
      "-ula#Latin"
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        "t": "coming after, later, next"
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      "form": "postrene",
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        "Late-Middle-English"
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    {
      "form": "postrun",
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        "Late-Middle-English"
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      "form": "postyrn",
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    },
    {
      "form": "postryn",
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      "form": "poasterne",
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        "Southern"
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          "english": "And then Sir Lancelot broke the chains from his legs and of his arms, and in the breaking he hurt his hands sore, and so Sir Lancelot ran out at a postern […]",
          "ref": "1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “Capitulum ij”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book XII, [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, →OCLC, leaf 298, recto; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: David Nutt, […], 1889, →OCLC, page 443, lines 22–25:",
          "text": "And thenne ſir launcelot brake the chaynes fro his legges and of his armes ⸝ & in the brekyng he hurte his handes ſore ⸝ & so ſir launcelot ran out at a poſterne […]",
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          "door",
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          "passage",
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    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈpɔːstərn(ə)/"
    },
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      "note": "metathetic"
    }
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  "word": "posterne"
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          "english": "And then Sir Lancelot broke the chains from his legs and of his arms, and in the breaking he hurt his hands sore, and so Sir Lancelot ran out at a postern […]",
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          "text": "And thenne ſir launcelot brake the chaynes fro his legges and of his armes ⸝ & in the brekyng he hurte his handes ſore ⸝ & so ſir launcelot ran out at a poſterne […]",
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    {
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  "word": "posterne"
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