Cumberland sausage

noun

A traditional long English sausage made from chopped pork with pepper and herbs.

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Meanings

nounCumberland sausage (countable and uncountable, plural Cumberland sausages)

plural Cumberland sausages

  1. countableuncountableA traditional long English sausage made from chopped pork with pepper and herbs.
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    Cumberland sausage is about half as thick as your wrist and extends in a single rope several feet long, so that Mistrootchinson [Mister Hutchinson, the butcher], having weighed you one end while the other trailed over the edge of the scale, would then cut it for you like a draper selling a length of tape.

    1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 62
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