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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.


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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of oil cake

First recorded in 1735–45


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I’m not much of a baker, but there’s an olive oil cake in there that’s really, really good.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

Then he takes a bite of the olive oil cake I have made for dessert.

From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026

The cake has six layers of tender ricotta olive oil cake, each soaked with grapefruit juice and given a smear of grapefruit curd and mascarpone cream.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 21, 2022

Dishes like venison chile Colorado and tender walnut oil cake sweetened with candy cap mushrooms reveal a style that’s rooted in the past, but points toward the future.

From New York Times ● Sep. 30, 2022

The nitrogen element in cotton-seed is greater than that of any of the grains; it is richer in nitrogenous matter than peas or beans; richer than gluten, meat or oil cake.

From Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro by Daniel Wallace Culp

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