linseed cake

linseed cake ExamplesWord Origin noun

a cake or a mass made by expressing the oil from linseed, used chiefly as feed for cattle.

Origin of linseed cake First recorded in 1795–1805 Examples from the Web for linseed cake Historical Examples of linseed cake

Linseed-cake may be substituted for linseed-meal; but the meal, though its cost is 15 per cent.

Charles Alexander Cameron

If oil-cakes be used as an adjunct to straw, rape-cake will be found more economical than linseed-cake.

Charles Alexander Cameron

One variety—namely, the East Indian—is almost poisonous, whilst the very best kind is slightly inferior to linseed-cake.

Charles Alexander Cameron

The principal kinds of oil-cake employed for feeding purposes are the following:—Linseed-cake, Rape-cake, and cotton-seed cake.

Charles Alexander Cameron

Crushed linseed, linseed and bran, or linseed-cake dust are among the best.

Harry Caulton Reeks