"press cake" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: press cakes [plural], presscake [alternative]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} press cake (countable and uncountable, plural press cakes)
  1. A cake of compressed material, such as the cake resulting from compressing the meal powder in making gunpowder; the pressed product at various stages of coal tar manufacture; or the vegetable residue after the sugar has been expressed in beet-sugar manufacture. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (Compressed material): seemenkakku (Ingrian), күнжара (künjara) (Kazakh)

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "express",
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