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cotton cake

American

noun

a mass of compressed cottonseed after the oil has been extracted: used chiefly to feed cattle.

cotton cake British

noun

cottonseed meal compressed into nuts or cubes of various sizes for feeding to animals

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Etymology

Origin of cotton cake

First recorded in 1890–95

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cotton cake

The second lot requires three or four pounds of undecorticated cotton cake each towards the end of September and in October when grass begins to fail.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various

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