Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In fortification and artillery: A long pipe or bag, made of cloth well pitched, or of leather, filled with powder, and extending from the chamber of a mine to the entrance of the gallery. A long bundle of fagots or fascines for raising batteries and other purposes.

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Examples

  • “It was not called saucisse minuit then; it was merely sausage of the house in a little inn in a little Spanish town.

    Too Many Cooks Stout, Rex, 1886-1975 1938

  • I began with a sprightlypas de bourrée des saucisse sans doute,which I then developed into anarabesque fondue allongée.

    Diary of a Bolshoi Potato Dancer Con Chapman 2011

  • I began with a sprightly pas de bourrée des saucisse sans doute, which I then developed into an arabesque fondue allongée.

    Diary of a Bolshoi Potato Dancer Con Chapman 2012

  •  I began with a sprightlypas de bourrée des saucisse sans doute, which I then developed into anarabesque fondue allongée.

    Diary of a Bolshoi Potato Dancer 2010

  • She is definitely not asking what my 10-year-old daugher thought she heard, which was “Avec saucisse?”

    Great Bakes « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog 2008

  • Bon je vous resume mon repas vous allez rire: J'ai mangé un peu de salade au riz, raisin sec enfin le truc super sucre, salé super bon, un boudin blanc et une saucisse ...

    pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2007

  • Le monsieur specialiste de la saucisse et du steack haché est deja occupé alors je tend la main entre lui et la jeune fille en quete d'un emploi pour chopper un bulletin d'inscription.

    pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2006

  • They send us back with a little cooler with all the goodies that we love from the region comté, saucisse de morteau... and perhaps it is the french way?

    Home Frozen 2005

  • “I understand Berin is going to make saucisse minuit for lunch to-morrow. Huh?”

    Too Many Cooks Stout, Rex, 1886-1975 1938

  • Four times, from 1928 to 1930, when you were at the Tarleton, a man in London went there, ordered saucisse minuit, took away some in his pocket, and sent it to me.

    Too Many Cooks Stout, Rex, 1886-1975 1938

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