oilcake
(ˈɔɪlkeɪk)
The cake or mass of compressed seeds (rapeseed, linseed, cottonseed, or other kind) which is left after pressing out so much of the oil as can be thus extracted; used as a fattening food for cattle or sheep, or as manure. (Usually as a substance; less commonly with pl.)
| 1743 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman June iv. 36 Dressing Ground with Lime, Chalk,..Oil Cake Powder, Malt Dust [etc]. 1757 W. Thompson R.N. Advoc. 41 They shall not be fed with Graves, Oil Cakes, Horse-Flesh. 1805 Trans. Soc. Arts XXIII. 41 Feeding the cows with green food and oil-cake. 1859 All Year Round No. 29. 57 Our greatest agricultural revolution was produced by feeding mutton on oil-cake and sliced turnips. 1942 Sun (Baltimore) 26 Nov. 8/2 The ships, operating under a safe conduct agreement between Sweden and belligerent nations, were laden with grain, oilcake and piece goods. 1971 Post (S. Afr., Cape ed.) (Suppl.) 9 May 10/1 (caption) Easy oil cake..easy and cheap to make. 1975 Nature 13 Feb. 488/3 The importance of the poppy crop lies primarily in the seed, as the principle [sic] source.., after extraction, of oil-cake for cattle feed. |
| Comb. 1865 Dickens Mut. Fr. i. x, An oilcake-fed style of business-gentleman. |