oil meal

noun

1. oil cake ground into small particles for livestock feed.

Word History and Origins

Origin of oil meal¹

First recorded in 1885–90

Example Sentences

Corn and oats, corn and bran, oil meal in small quantities.

From Project Gutenberg

A ton of the seed contains as much protein as a ton of old-process oil meal, and three fourths as much as a ton of cottonseed meal.

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To fatten cattle there ought to be mixed with the slop, a little oil meal, or chopped flaxseed, or chopped corn.

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Cereals, cedar sawdust, ground nutshells, oil meal, and cracker crumbs are the chief adulterants.

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The meal adjuncts to accompany such feeding may consist of ground corn, oats, bran, and oil meal, fed in the proportions of, say 4, 2, 1, and 1 parts by weight.

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