Stab to remove articles from battered sausage (5)
I believe the answer is:
guess
'stab' is the definition.
(I've seen this in another clue)
I can't explain the remainder of the clue.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for guess that I've seen before include "Divine - estimate" , "Theory" , "Hypothesis" , "Estimate, supposition" , "Estimate; suppose" .)