ˈrape-cake
[f. rape n.5]
a. A flat cake made of rapeseed pressed into this form after the oil has been extracted from it. b. The substance of which these cakes are composed.
| 1660 Bk. of Rates, Rape cake the thousand, xs. 1732 W. Ellis Pract. Farmer ii. 51 Several make use of Rape-cakes, Ground..into Powder. 1766 Museum Rust. VI. 269 Cattle are not fed with rape cakes, because they refuse to eat them: and those cakes are therefore sold for manuring the ground. 1869 E. A. Parkes Pract. Hygiene (ed. 3) 283 Pepper is adulterated with linseed..rape cake, and ground rice. |