sausage

noun

1. minced pork, beef, or other meats, often combined, together with various added ingredients and seasonings, usually stuffed into a prepared intestine or other casing and often made in links.
2. Aeronautics. a sausage-shaped observation balloon, formerly used in warfare.

noun

1. finely minced meat, esp pork or beef, mixed with fat, cereal or bread, and seasonings (sausage meat), and packed into a tube-shaped animal intestine or synthetic casing
2. an object shaped like a sausage
3. aeronautics informal a captive balloon shaped like a sausage
4. not a sausage nothing at all

n.mid-15c., sawsyge, from Old North French saussiche (Modern French saucisse), from Vulgar Latin *salsica “sausage,” from salsicus “seasoned with salt,” from Latin salsus “salted” (see sauce).