SAUCISSE
, in Artillery, a long train of powder inclosed in a roll or pipe of pitched cloth, and sometimes of leather, about 2 inches in diameter; serving to set fire to mines or caissons. It is usually placed in a wooden pipe, called an auget, to prevent its growing damp.
Saucisson, in Fortification, a kind of faggot, made of thick branches of trees, or of the trunks of shrubs, bound together; for the purpose of covering the men, and to serve as epaulements; and also to repair breaches, stop passages, make traverses over a wet ditch, &c.
The Saucisson differs from the fascine, which is only made of small branches; and by its being bound at both ends, and in the middle.
