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oil cake

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.

Origin of oil cake

First recorded in 1735–45
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Historical Examples of oilcake

  • So you can take it that barges what carry same as grain and oilcake and cement and bricks and such-like is mostly good too.

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    Cyril Ionides

British Dictionary definitions for oilcake

oil cake

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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