Definition of "linseed-cake" [linseed-cake]

• The solid mass or cake which remains when oil is expressed from flaxseed. It is much used as food for cattle and sheep. Also called oil-cake. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• ""Weel, he managed middlin 'well wi' the neeps, and whiles, the linseed-cake, but oh Doctor, he canna thole the straw!""
• "It has been remarked by chemists, in this connection, that the great value of linseed-cake, as an adjunct to hay, for fat cattle and milch cows, has been long recognized; and that it is undeniably traceable, in the main, to three ingredients of the seeds of the oil-yielding plants."
• "Others still take pains at this age to have fresh linseed-cake, broken into pieces of the size of a pigeon's egg; putting one of these into the mouth after the meal of milk has been finished, and when it is eager to suck at any thing in its way."