cotton cake

American  

noun

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

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cotton cake British  

noun

1. 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

Example Sentences

There’s a bittersweet chocolate crémeux with cushions of cotton cake, which wafts on a cloudlike continuum somewhere between milk bread and cheesecake.

From New York Times

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 Project Gutenberg

On the other hand, the farmer had had the advantage of an increased and cheapened supply of feeding stuffs, such as maize, linseed and cotton cakes, and of artificial manures imported from abroad.

From Project Gutenberg