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oil cake

noun

  1. 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

  1. 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

Equipped with a loaf pan, you could go for a summery one-bowl lemon crumb loaf, a fresh citrus olive oil cake, a carrot loaf cake, a one-bowl cornmeal pound cake, or a poppy seed cake.

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Mr. Childers states, that 80 Leicester sheep in the open field, consumed 50 baskets of cut turnips per day, besides oil-cake.

In spring, from half a pound to a pound of oil cake is given daily to each of them, along with turnips.

Oh, 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.

Engineering, oil-cake, tobacco, sail and rope works are the principal industries in the town.

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