Definition of Oil cake

1. Noun. Mass of e.g. linseed or cottonseed or soybean from which the oil has been pressed; used as food for livestock.

Terms within: Field Soybean
Generic synonyms: Feed, Provender
Specialized synonyms: Oil Meal

Definition of Oil cake

1. Noun. The solid residue remaining after any oilseed has been pressed to remove the vegetable oil; it is used, with other ingredients, as animal food ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Oil Cake

oiks
oikumene
oikumenes
oil
oil-bearing
oil-canning
oil-fired
oil-hardened steel
oil-industry analyst
oil-water interface
oil bath
oil beetle
oil burner
oil burners
oil business
oil cake (current term)
oil cartel
oil change
oil color
oil company
oil conservation
oil cyst
oil embolism
oil field
oil fields
oil filter
oil furnace
oil future
oil geologist
oil gland

Literary usage of Oil cake

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"OIL-CAKE. The solid compressed mass remaining after the expression of oil from ... Oil-cake should be thoroughly dried by exposure before being packed or ..."

2. Feeds and Feeding: A Hand-book for the Student and Stockman by William Arnon Henry (1910)
"There is no more healthful feed for limited use with all farm animals than linseed oil cake or oil meal, with its rich store of crude protein, ..."

3. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1893)
"As a nutritive supplement he fed to the first lot cotton-seed oil-cake and corn ... Beet roots 1,7*3 Hay 457 Straw 234 Corn flour 660 Cotton-seed oil-cake ..."

4. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1921)
"Appellant exported large quantities of oil cake, derived from seed which it had imported, and made demand in proper form for the drawback provided for by ..."

5. Report of the Secretary of Agriculture by United States Dept. of Agriculture (1863)
"Tbe consumption of oil-cake for fattening purposes has reached an extraordinary point in Great Britain. It is not easy to ascertain how ..."

6. The Cultivator by New York State Agricultural Society (1860)
"Whether this change had been made in consequence of finding some, more or less, of the oil cake in market adulterated or of inferior quality, or with a view ..."

7. Handbook of Commercial Geography by George Goudie Chisholm (1908)
"VEGETABLE OILS, OIL-SEEDS, AND OIL-CAKE. Almost all vegetable oils are extracted from the fruit or seed. The plants supplying oil vary widely in their ..."

8. Pharmaceutical Journal by Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (1869)
"NOTE ON MUSTARD OIL-CAKE. Professor ATTFIELD said he had no other note written, but there was one subject to which he could allude to occupy the remaining ..."

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