Oilcake

Word OILCAKE
Character 7
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Definitions and meanings of "Oilcake"

What do we mean by oilcake?

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

A cake made with vegetable oil instead of butter.

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The word "oilcake" in example sentences

He ruminates according to his nature, and consumes his destined portion of turnips or oilcake, until the time comes for his disappearance from the pastures, to be succeeded by other deep-lunged and fat-ribbed animals. ❋ Unknown (2006)

There was a dense fog too; as if it were a city in the clouds, which they had been travelling to all night up a magic beanstalk; and there was a thick crust upon the pavement like oilcake; which, one of the outsides ❋ Unknown (2006)

The most important agricultural products imported are vegetable oils, rice, wheat, oilcake and cotton. ❋ Unknown (1998)

In addition, markets for oilcake had improved with the decline in consumption of carcass meal in European Union countries following the mad cow disease scare. ❋ Unknown (1996)

"EU consumption of oilcake in the current calendar year should be around a million tons more than previously expected." ❋ Unknown (1996)

Figure 23, A, indicates the expected IRR in relation to the rates of sunflower oil and oilcake recovery. ❋ Unknown (1989)

This corresponds to rates of supplementation of 1.5 per cent for urea or 10 - 15 per cent for oilcake. ❋ Unknown (1979)

(This figure is conservative, because a calf fed treated straw consumed slightly less oilcake/1,000 kg straw than the one fed untreated straw.) ❋ Unknown (1979)

It may be imagined that Mr. Stacpoole declined to receive oilcake as if it were "potheen" or other contraband, and at once closed his account with the firm in question. ❋ Bernard H. Becker (N/A)

The principal difference is in the splendid plant for steam-ploughing exhibited by Fowler & Son and by Aveling & Porter, and in the great number and variety of the machines and apparatus for preparing food for animals -- chaff-cutters, oat - and bean-bruisers and crushers, oilcake-grinders, boilers and steamers for feed and mills for rough grinding of grain. ❋ Various (N/A)

Keep the young calf gradually growing, never let him want; give 1 to 2 lb. of oilcake a-day; and keep up the irritation by cords with a good hold of the dewlap. ❋ William M'Combie (N/A)

If fat cattle are attacked, they should have their turnips sliced, with crushed oilcake and meal. ❋ William M'Combie (N/A)

But the bullock having had a good meal of oilcake would not settle down to graze alone but kept running after all the herds of cattle it saw, and Chote had to spend his whole time running after it till he was worn out and he was very soon sorry that he had taken up such hard service; and was quite resolved not to stay on after his year was up. ❋ Cecil Henry Bompas (N/A)

The evening before the contest the oilman gave the bullock a big feed of meal and oilcake; and on the eventful morning the villagers all collected and watched him oiling its horns and tying a bell round its neck. ❋ Cecil Henry Bompas (N/A)

Mr. Richard Stacpoole, of Eden Vale, county Clare, wrote a few days since to a firm in Limerick for twelve tons of oilcake, not an insignificant order from a responsible person as times go. ❋ Bernard H. Becker (N/A)

Their original allowance of 11 lbs. oats and oilcake has been reduced to ❋ Apsley Cherry-Garrard (1922)

Fresh and good food was found in the shape of oilcake and oats, a limited quantity of each of which had been brought and was saved for the actual Polar Journey, and everything which care and foresight could devise was done to save them discomfort. ❋ Apsley Cherry-Garrard (1922)

Assuming that you carry two bags of oilcake to Hut Point, I want you to take these with five bags of forage to Corner Camp before the end of the month. ❋ Edward Ratcliffe Garth Russell Evans Mountevans (1918)

More than once the Daur was frozen thick; for weeks every beast was an absolute prisoner to the byre, and for months was fed with straw and turnips and potatoes and oilcake. ❋ George MacDonald (1864)

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