Crossword clues for caber
caber
- Highland games log
- Pole heaved by Scotsmen
- Highland Games necessity
- Thing thrown in Scotland
- Scottish throwing pole
- Scottish pole that's an anagram of "brace"
- Scotsman's tossing-log
- Pole tossed in Highlands competitions
- Pole thrown by Scots
- MacPherson's missile?
- Log tossed by a Scotsman
- Item for Scottish Games thrower
- Highland Games pole
- Highland Games item
- Highland fling?
- Highland athletic event
- Competition pole
- Brace (anag) — pole
- Beam thrown by Scotsmen
- Highlander's fling?
- Scots toss it
- Log tossed in competition
- Pole tossed in competition
- Pole tossed by Scots
- Pole tossed in a Scottish 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
- Gaelic game pole
- Pole used in Scottish games
- Pole in a Scottish sport
- Tree trunk in a Scottish sport
- Scottish beam
- Pole for tossing
- Something tossed in the Highlands
- Highland Games event
- Tree trunk section (for tossing)
- Tree trunk for tossing
- Thrown tree trunk
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Caber \Ca"ber\ (k[=a]"b[~e]r), n. [Gael. cabar.] A pole or beam, esp. one used in Gaelic games for tossing as a trial of strength.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
pole used in housebuilding, especially as an object tossed in the Highland games, 1510s, from Gaelic cabar "pole, spar," cognate with Irish cabar "lath," Welsh ceibr "beam, rafter."
Wiktionary
n. A long, thick log held upright at one end and tossed in the Highland games.
WordNet
n : a heavy wooden pole (such as the trunk of a young fir) tossed as a test of strength (in the Highlands of northern Scotland)
Wikipedia
Çabër or Čabra is a village located in the municipality of Zubin Potok, in Kosovo. The river Iber runs through Çabër. According to legend, there were two brothers and their nephew who first came to Çabër and gave it its name. Eventually a village was formed and now and grew to have a large population. It has been said that these brothers and their nephew came from a place named " qafa e prushit" which is located in the borders of city of Kosovo (Gjakova) and Albania. The most common surnames in the village are Uka, Kurti, and Mehmeti.
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.