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Definition of Millcake
1. n. The incorporated materials for gunpowder, in the form of a dense mass or cake, ready to be subjected to the process of granulation.
Definition of Millcake
1. a residue from pressed linseed [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Millcake
Literary usage of Millcake
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual of Elementary Chemistry, Theoretical and Practical by George Fownes (1873)
"The macs is then subjected to great pressure, and the millcake thus produced
broken in pieces, and placed in sieves made of perforated vellum, ..."
2. The Young Folks' Cyclopædia of Common Things by John Denison Champlin (1884)
"The mixture, now called "millcake," is next pressed very hard in a hydrostatic
press (see WATER) into thin smooth cakes, called " press-cake," which is ..."
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