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  • noun Plural form of caber.

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Examples

  • Scotland gears up for a year of poetry, whisky and cabers

    Massacre 'under trust' on a freezing February night 2011

  • So, if all that—pickles, cabers, other stuff that had zipped right by—cleared things up for Bernie, great.

    To Fetch a Thief Spencer Quinn 2010

  • When chef Aiden Byrne departed the Dorchester Grill, leaving behind the campest dining room in London – the murals of strapping men in kilts tossing their cabers, and the tartan upholstered chairs redefined the term Gay Gordons – it was assumed he would open a fine dining restaurant.

    The 20 best places to eat in Britain this summer 2010

  • Highland dancing, piping, the inevitable throwing of things, whether cabers, stones or hammers at the near-200 year-old festival.

    This week's new events Toby Bakare 2010

  • So, if all that—pickles, cabers, other stuff that had zipped right by—cleared things up for Bernie, great.

    To Fetch a Thief Spencer Quinn 2010

  • So, if all that—pickles, cabers, other stuff that had zipped right by—cleared things up for Bernie, great.

    To Fetch a Thief Spencer Quinn 2010

  • There was, of course, more tartan than you can shake a whirlie-gig at, more whisky than can be nipped and drammed in any given day and more cabers tossed than, well, my analogy cup runneth over with options so I'll leave it there.

    Scotland on Sunday's lament Jeff 2009

  • There was, of course, more tartan than you can shake a whirlie-gig at, more whisky than can be nipped and drammed in any given day and more cabers tossed than, well, my analogy cup runneth over with options so I'll leave it there.

    Archive 2009-07-01 Jeff 2009

  • Tossing off was something Scotsmen did with cabers.

    Archive 2009-04-01 Fred Kiesche 2009

  • Tossing off was something Scotsmen did with cabers.

    The Lensman's Children Fred Kiesche 2009

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