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Scottish pole that's an anagram of "brace"
Answer for the clue "Scottish pole that's an anagram of "brace" ", 5 letters:
caber
Alternative clues for the word caber
- Highland Games event
- Pole tossed by Scots
- Gaelic game pole
- Pole tossed in a Scottish competition
- Pole thrown by Scots
- Beam thrown by Scotsmen
- Log tossed in competition
- A heavy wooden pole (such as the trunk of a young fir) tossed as a test of strength (in the Highlands of Scotland)
- Pole in a Gaelic game
Word definitions for caber in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ We tarried awhile to watch Messrs Anderson and Rowe perform doughty deeds with caber and shot on a pleasant summers day.
Usage examples of caber.
Foyle hurled Sigurd Magsman up into the air like an ancient Scotsman tossing the caber.
He came from the far north and at the Highland games he used to array himself in kilt and sporran and throw cabers around like matchsticks.
John McCabe was a strapping Scotsman with arms like cabers and a look that would frighten even the fiercest dog.
There had been no opportunity to clean himself up after Lucius and Cabera had restitched and rebandaged his wounds.
Soon, the Englishman who had tossed the caber was sparring with the dramatic critic, Hazard and Hall boxed in fantastic burlesque, then, gloves in hand, looked for the next appropriately matched couple.
He would have Cabera look at it back on Accipiter, but he didn't think it was broken.