cottonseed cake
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of cottonseed cake
An Americanism dating back to 1865–70
Example Sentences
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Result: there was a shortage, though possibly temporary, of cottonseed cake and the price jumped from $60 to $68 a ton in six weeks.*
From Time Magazine Archive
Processors, who turn the seed into cottonseed cake for cattle feed, com plained that they were unable to compete with the Government's purchases and get the seed they needed.
From Time Magazine Archive
Citizens grew accustomed to eating library paste, boiled leather, and bread baked with cottonseed cake, even sawdust and cellulose.
From Time Magazine Archive
During the dry weather, while we were slowly losing about everything we ever had, Papa hired out to haul cottonseed cake in his wagon to ranchers somewhere west of Lamesa.
From The Life of Me; an autobiography by Johnson, Clarence Edgar
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