linseed cake

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of linseed cake¹

First recorded in 1795–1805

Example Sentences

In Sugarcandy Mountain it was Sunday seven days a week, clover was in season all the year round, and lump sugar and linseed cake grew on the hedges.

From Literature

He even claimed to have been there on one of his higher flights, and to have seen the everlasting fields of clover and the linseed cake and lump sugar growing on the hedges.

From Literature

Horses doing slow or other than “upper ten” work may have oats crushed, not ground, and a variety of additions made to the oats which are usually the basis of the feed—for example, a few old crushed beans, a little linseed meal, ground linseed cake or about a wine-glassful of unboiled linseed oil.

From Project Gutenberg

The chief industries of Grimsby are shipbuilding, brewing, tanning, manufactures of ship tackle, ropes, ice for preserving fish, turnery, flour, linseed cake, artificial manure; and there are saw mills, bone and corn mills, and creosote works.

From Project Gutenberg

Shipbuilding and iron-founding are carried on, and there are manufactures of linseed cake, and agricultural and other machinery.

From Project Gutenberg