'Press cake' definitions:

Definition of 'Press cake'

From: GCIDE
  • Press cake \Press cake\ A cake of compressed substance, as: in gunpowder manufacture, the cake resulting from compressing the meal powder; in the treatment of coal tar, the pressed product at various stages of the process; or, in beet-sugar manufacture, the vegetable residue after the sugar juice has been expressed. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]