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oilcake|ˈɔɪlkeɪk|
The cake or mass of compressed seeds (rapeseed, linseed, cottonseed, or other kind) which is left after pressing out so much of the oil as can be thus extracted; used as a fattening food for cattle or sheep, or as manure. (Usually as a substance; less commonly with pl.)
1743W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman June iv. 36 Dressing Ground with Lime, Chalk,..Oil Cake Powder, Malt Dust [etc]. 1757W. Thompson R.N. Advoc. 41 They shall not be fed with Graves, Oil Cakes, Horse-Flesh. 1805Trans. Soc. Arts XXIII. 41 Feeding the cows with green food and oil-cake. 1859All Year Round No. 29. 57 Our greatest agricultural revolution was produced by feeding mutton on oil-cake and sliced turnips. 1942Sun (Baltimore) 26 Nov. 8/2 The ships, operating under a safe conduct agreement between Sweden and belligerent nations, were laden with grain, oilcake and piece goods. 1971Post (S. Afr., Cape ed.) (Suppl.) 9 May 10/1 (caption) Easy oil cake..easy and cheap to make. 1975Nature 13 Feb. 488/3 The importance of the poppy crop lies primarily in the seed, as the principle [sic] source.., after extraction, of oil-cake for cattle feed.
Comb.1865Dickens Mut. Fr. i. x, An oilcake-fed style of business-gentleman. |