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- noun Alternative spelling of
oil cake .
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Examples
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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
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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
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The most important agricultural products imported are vegetable oils, rice, wheat, oilcake and cotton.
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The most important agricultural products imported are vegetable oils, rice, wheat, oilcake and cotton.
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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.
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"EU consumption of oilcake in the current calendar year should be around a million tons more than previously expected."
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Figure 23, A, indicates the expected IRR in relation to the rates of sunflower oil and oilcake recovery.
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This corresponds to rates of supplementation of 1.5 per cent for urea or 10 - 15 per cent for oilcake.
Chapter 12 1979
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(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
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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.
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