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单词 rape cake
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rape caken.

Brit. /ˈreɪp keɪk/, U.S. /ˈreɪp ˌkeɪk/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: rape n.5, cake n.
Etymology: < rape n.5 + cake n. Compare Dutch raapkoek (15th cent. in Middle Dutch as raepkoek, raepkoeck).
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.
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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).
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