oil cake

American  

noun

1. a cake or mass of linseed, cottonseed, soybean, or the like, from which the oil has been extracted or expressed, used as food for livestock.

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oil cake British  

noun

1. stock feed consisting of compressed cubes made from the residue of the crushed seeds of oil-bearing crops such as linseed

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Etymology

Origin of oil cake

First recorded in 1735–45

Example Sentences

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oil cake

This olive oil pound cake works for dessert and breakfast, which means a world exists where you could eat only olive oil cake for twelve hours.

From Salon ● Feb. 5, 2023

I think just about everything Charlie Dunmire and her staff at Georgetown cake shop Deep Sea Sugar & Salt does is magic, but I especially loved the grapefruit olive oil cake from last February.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 21, 2022

Her menu includes some of the restaurant’s favorites, like clam toast, lamb burger and olive oil cake.

From New York Times ● Aug. 3, 2021

What’s in the basket: Items like focaccia bread and olive oil cake from chef Amy Brandwein’s wood-fired oven at Piccolina lend themselves to a picnic, but the cafe also offers a ready-made meal for two.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 6, 2020

The food should consist of a mixture of two or more of the following articles, which must be cooked: linseed, parsnips, shorts, carrots, meal, apples, barley, oats, turnips, slippery elm, oil cake, &c.

From The American Reformed Cattle Doctor by Dadd, George