caber

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Wheatley on Prayer-book Footnote 8: The caber is a small tree, or beam, heavier at one end than the other.

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  1. noun A long heavy wooden pole tossed end over end as a demonstration of strength in Scottish highland games.

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  • "And then what happened Alec picked up the laird's son and sent him flying, just like a caber He threw Philip No, no," Jamie countered. —  Garwood, Julie - The Bride
  • By the time he had watched the piping championships, caber-tossing, pigeon-plucking, ferret-chasing and all the other many activities, his heart was in his running shoes. —  Death of a Macho Man
  • Tossing the caber is usually considered to be a distinctly Scottish sport, although "casting the bar," an exercise evidently similar in character, was popular in England in the 16th century but afterwards died out. —  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
  • The caber is the heavy trunk of a tree from 16 to 20 ft. —  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
  • Wheatley on Prayer-book Footnote 8: The caber is a small tree, or beam, heavier at one end than the other. —  Old English Sports
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  1. Scottish Gaelic cabar, pole, beam, rafter, from Vulgar Latin *capriō, from Latin capra, she-goat; see chevron.

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  1. Scots, also written cabir, kabar; from Gaelic cabar, a pole, stake, rafter, = Irish cabar, a coupling; cf. Cornish keber, Welsh ceibren, a rafter; Dutch keper, a rafter.
 

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