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  • noun Alternative spelling of oil cake.

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oil +‎ cake

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Examples

  • 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

    The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit 2006

  • 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.

    The Book of Snobs 2006

  • The most important agricultural products imported are vegetable oils, rice, wheat, oilcake and cotton.

    ANC BRIEFING DEREK HANEKOM 1998

  • The most important agricultural products imported are vegetable oils, rice, wheat, oilcake and cotton.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 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.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • "EU consumption of oilcake in the current calendar year should be around a million tons more than previously expected."

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • Figure 23, A, indicates the expected IRR in relation to the rates of sunflower oil and oilcake recovery.

    4. Financial Analysis of the Case Studies 1989

  • This corresponds to rates of supplementation of 1.5 per cent for urea or 10 - 15 per cent for oilcake.

    Chapter 12 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.)

    Chapter 12 1979

  • 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.

    Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878 Various

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