n. An article of food, consisting usually of chopped or minced meat, as pork, beef, or veal, seasoned with sage, pepper, salt, etc., and stuffed into properly cleaned entrails of the ox, sheep, or pig, tied or constricted at short intervals. When sausages are made on an extensive scale the meat is minced and stuffed into the intestines by machinery.n. In milit. mining, a canvas tube filled with powder.n. plural A commercial name for crude rubber in finger- or sausage-shaped pieces. See rubber, 3.