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oil cake
noun
- a cake or mass of linseed, cottonseed, soybean, or the like, from which the oil has been extracted or expressed, used as food for livestock.
oil cake
noun
- stock feed consisting of compressed cubes made from the residue of the crushed seeds of oil-bearing crops such as linseed
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Word History and Origins
Origin of oil cake1
First recorded in 1735–45
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Example Sentences
Mr. Childers states, that 80 Leicester sheep in the open field, consumed 50 baskets of cut turnips per day, besides oil-cake.
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In spring, from half a pound to a pound of oil cake is given daily to each of them, along with turnips.
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Oh, but it iss a fine joke to hear ye talk o' biled oil-cake, John Cameron!'
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Like Grey, Page believed that there were more important things involved than an occasional cargo of copper or of oil cake.
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Engineering, oil-cake, tobacco, sail and rope works are the principal industries in the town.
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