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sausage

(n.) In the original use, a quantity of finely chopped pork, beef, or other meat, spiced and flavoured, enclosed in a short length of the intestine of some animal, so as to form a cylindrical roll (usually, one of the 鈥榣inks鈥� formed by tying the containing intestine at regular intervals); later also, in generalized sense, meat thus prepared.

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