单词 | rape cake |
释义 | rape caken. Agriculture. As a count noun (usually in plural): a flat cake made of pressed rapeseed after the oil has been extracted from it, used as fertilizer or as food for livestock. As a mass noun: the substance of which these cakes are composed; pressed rapeseed. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > preparation of land or soil > fertilizing or manuring > [noun] > use of other natural fertilizers > other natural fertilizers marl1280 pomacec1450 cod's head1545 buck-ashes1563 bucking-ashes1577 guano1604 greaves1614 rape cake1634 muck1660 wool-nipping1669 willow-earth1683 green dressing1732 bone flour1758 bone powder1758 poudrette1764 bone dust1771 green manure1785 fish-manure1788 wassal1797 lime-rubbish1805 Bude sand1808 bone1813 cancerine1840 inch-bones1846 bonemeal1849 silver sand1851 fish guano1857 food1857 terramare1866 kainite1868 fish-flour1879 soil1879 fish-scrap1881 gas lime1882 bean cake1887 inoculant1916 1634 W. Mowet Direction to Husbandman sig. B4v That which may seeme the most difficult to be got in some places, is the Rape Oyle and Rape Cakes. 1659 A. Speed Adam out of Eden 27 With..Turnip..tops, and Rape-cakes or Lynt-seed cakes, and grains you may make Pottage and wholesome food for your Cows. 1732 W. Ellis Pract. Farmer: 2nd Pt. 51 Several make use of Rape-cakes, Ground..into Powder. 1766 Museum Rusticum 6 269 Cattle are not fed with rape cakes, because they refuse to eat them: and those cakes are therefore sold for manuring the ground. 1831 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Agric. (ed. 2) i. 72 The cows..are generally fed in sheds, once a day or oftener, with rape cake, grains, and a great variety of other preparations. 1869 E. A. Parkes Man. Pract. Hygiene (ed. 3) 283 Pepper is adulterated with linseed..rape cake, and ground rice. 1905 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 77 29 The use of farmyard manure and of rape cake seems also to result in a diminished rate of loss of calcium carbonate to the soil. 1936 W. L. Davies Chem. of Milk iv. 68 The substitution of coconut and palm kernel cakes for sunflower and rape cakes has had an unfavourable influence on butter consistency. 2005 Irish Independent (Nexis) 18 Aug. From the point of view of good utilisation and boiler output, he said the best [bio]fuel was willow, followed by oats, rape cake, wheat, barley and, finally, miscanthus. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1634 |
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