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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

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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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

A ton of the seed contains as much protein as a ton of old-process oil meal, and three fourths as much as a ton of cottonseed meal.

From Crops and Methods for Soil Improvement by Agee, Alva

To fatten cattle there ought to be mixed with the slop, a little oil meal, or chopped flaxseed, or chopped corn.

From The Practical Distiller An Introduction To Making Whiskey, Gin, Brandy, Spirits, &c. &c. of Better Quality, and in Larger Quantities, than Produced by the Present Mode of Distilling, from the Produce of the United States by McHarry, Samuel

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