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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 man…

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  1. 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.
  2. A cake of compressed substance, as: in gunpowder manufacture,the cake resulting from compressing the meal powder; in the treatmentof coal tar, the pressed product at various stages of the process;or, in beet-sugar manufacture, the vegetable residue after the sugarjuice has been expressed.