oil cake
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.
Origin of oil cake
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How to use oil cake in a sentence
Mr. Childers states, that 80 Leicester sheep in the open field, consumed 50 baskets of cut turnips per day, besides oil-cake.
Domestic Animals | Richard L. AllenIn spring, from half a pound to a pound of oil cake is given daily to each of them, along with turnips.
A Treatise on Sheep: | Ambrose BlacklockOh, but it iss a fine joke to hear ye talk o' biled oil-cake, John Cameron!'
Like Grey, Page believed that there were more important things involved than an occasional cargo of copper or of oil cake.
The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume I | Burton J. HendrickEngineering, oil-cake, tobacco, sail and rope works are the principal industries in the town.
British Dictionary definitions for oil cake
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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