The Collaborative International Dictionary
German \Ger"man\, a. [L. Germanus. See German, n.] Of or pertaining to Germany.
German Baptists. See Dunker.
German bit, a wood-boring tool, having a long elliptical pod and a scew point.
German carp (Zo["o]l.), the crucian carp.
German millet (Bot.), a kind of millet ( Setaria Italica, var.), whose seed is sometimes used for food.
German paste, a prepared food for caged birds.
German process (Metal.), the process of reducing copper ore
in a blast furnace, after roasting, if necessary.
--Raymond.
German sarsaparilla, a substitute for sarsaparilla extract.
German sausage, a polony, or gut stuffed with meat partly cooked.
German silver (Chem.), a silver-white alloy, hard and tough, but malleable and ductile, and quite permanent in the air. It contains nickel, copper, and zinc in varying proportions, and was originally made from old copper slag at Henneberg. A small amount of iron is sometimes added to make it whiter and harder. It is essentially identical with the Chinese alloy packfong. It was formerly much used for tableware, knife handles, frames, cases, bearings of machinery, etc., but is now largely superseded by other white alloys.
German steel (Metal.), a metal made from bog iron ore in a forge, with charcoal for fuel.
German text (Typog.), a character resembling modern German type, used in English printing for ornamental headings, etc., as in the words,
Note: This line is German Text.
German tinder. See Amadou.
Usage examples of "german sausage".
You can't tell whether you are eating apple-pie or German sausage, or strawberries and cream.
Dorgan drew an amusing sketch of a dachshund inside a frankfurter bun, and from that time on, the German sausage had a new American name.
The plate of neat, afternoon-tea triangles of bread and German sausage now lay between them on the long coffee-table.
And frankfurters are a type of German sausage made of pork and beef.
My neck was stiff, the right eye was swollen and tender, and my upper lip felt as though I had a German sausage stuffed under it.
Snagsby are touched up with a wet cloth, the best tea-service is set forth, and there is excellent provision made of dainty new bread, crusty twists, cool fresh butter, thin slices of ham, tongue, and German sausage, and delicate little rows of anchovies nestling in parsley.
The vice chairman of Polaris, a jumped-up German sausage-maker who never in a million years could have gotten into the club on his own, was now at Woodland, courtesy of Wilson McDonald.