Definition of "oilcake" [oilcake]

• Alternative spelling of oil cake. (noun)

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