linseed cake

American  

noun

1. a cake or a mass made by expressing the oil from linseed, used chiefly as feed for cattle.

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Etymology

Origin of linseed cake

First recorded in 1795–1805

Example Sentences

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linseed cake

He even claimed to have been there on one of his higher flights, and to have seen the everlasting fields of clover and the linseed cake and lump sugar growing on the hedges.

From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell

In Sugarcandy Mountain it was Sunday seven days a week, clover was in season all the year round, and lump sugar and linseed cake grew on the hedges.

From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell

This oil burns longer than any other vegetable oil, and Sunflower cake is more fattening to cattle than linseed cake.

From Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure by William Thomas Fernie

Cotton oil-cake is now ordered at the same price as linseed cake.

From The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. by P. L. Simmonds

Three pounds of this cotton-seed cake are equivalent to four of linseed cake of average quality.

From Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure by Robert Jennings