oil cake

a cake or mass of linseed, cottonseed, soybean, or the like, from which the oil has been extracted or expressed, used as food for livestock.

Origin of oil cake

First recorded in 1735–45

Cattle manure, bones, oil-cake and fish constitute the manures mainly used in Coorg.

Gold, Sport, And Coffee Planting In Mysore |Robert H. Elliot
Mr. Wright, near Dunbar, gives the following account of an experiment with pulped roots and straw and oil-cake.

The Stock-Feeder's Manual |Charles Alexander Cameron
The oil-cake is a very agreeable food to cattle, and serves to fatten them.

A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines |Andrew Ure
For a day or two they remain exposed to the air, and are then manured with ashes and oil-cake, and covered with earth.

The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom |P. L. Simmonds

The outlay for oil-cake and corn purchased for feeding, amounts to about £4,000 per annum.

A Walk from London to John O'Groat's |Elihu Burritt

oil cake

stock feed consisting of compressed cubes made from the residue of the crushed seeds of oil-bearing crops such as linseed