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oil meal

American  

noun

  1. oil cake ground into small particles for livestock feed.


Etymology

Origin of oil meal

First recorded in 1885–90

Example Sentences

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China retaliated in March by imposing tariffs on several Canadian agricultural products, including a 76% levy on Canadian canola seed imports and a 100% levy on canola oil, meal and peas.

From BBC Oct. 31, 2025

Thereafter, every day Clarence fed Dick ground corn, cooked barley, oil meal, bran, molasses feed, clover hay.

From Time Magazine Archive

By-products are linseed oil cake, oil meal, poultry feed, cattle feed.

From Time Magazine Archive

All but the middlings and oil meal come from the farm and are paid for by certain fixed charges heretofore mentioned.

From The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm by Streeter, John Williams

I do not think I have paid for food used for my fowls in any one year more than $500; grits, shells, meat meal, and oil meal will cover the list.

From The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm by Streeter, John Williams

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