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oil cake
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synonyms: press cake ???
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Definition:the solids that remain after the liquids are pressed out of a foodstuff, such as when extracting olive oil, coconut cream, peanut oil, apple cider, etc. Generally they are used as animal fodder.
photo: By National Institute of Korean LanguageCC BY-SA 2.0 kr, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=61546062
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Best of all though are the cattle, especially when they are fed on those oilcakes.
James Joyce. Ulysses
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waiting for the passing of trucks which travelled over a certain route and were known to carry cattle feed, and which, when they jolted over the bad patches in the road, sometimes spilt a few fragments of oil-cake.
George Orwell. 1984 (1949)
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"Use of oil-cakes," continued the president. He was hurrying on: "Flemish manure-flax-growing-drainage-long leases-domestic service."
Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary
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