‖ ˈsaucisse Obs.
Also 7 saulcisse.
[a. F. saucisse sausage n., applied transf. with allusion to the shape.]
= saucisson 3.
| 1604 E. Grimstone Hist. Siege Ostend 144 He causeth Saulcisses to be made (so they call certaine things made of wood, tyed together). 1702 Milit. Dict. (1711), Saucisse, a long Train of Powder roll'd up in a Pitch-Cloth, and sew'd together in Length, so that it reach from the Fourneau, or Chamber of the Mine, to the Place where the Engineer stands to spring the Mine... There are generally two Saucisses to every Mine, that if the one fail, the other may hit. 1738 Chambers Cycl. (ed. 2) s.v. Mine, The saucisse [1728 (ed. 1) reads Saucidge] of the mine is the train; for which there is always a little aperture left. 1795 Amer. State Papers, For. Relat. (1832) I. 523 (Stanf.) All arms and implements serving for the purposes of war, by land or sea, such as..carcases, saucisses, &c. |