This game requires great skill and strength, and it is seldom indeed that more than one man succeeds in tossing the caber fair and square.
The caber is a small tree, perhaps a larch with the branches all off.
The caber is the heavy trunk of a tree from 16 to 20 ft.
The winner is he who tosses with the best and easiest style, according to old Highland traditions, and whose caber falls straightest in a direct line from him.
In this the object is distance alone, the same caber being used by all contestants and the toss being measured from the tosser's foot to the spot where the small end strikes the ground.
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.
At one moment, when the fire of the machine guns was so terrific that it looked as if the attack must break down, a Seaforth piper dashed forward in front of the line and started 'Caber Feidh.
Pipers Fraser and Hamilton at once got up into the open and started playing "Caber Feidh"; the effect was very marked as their companies dashed forward after them.
The measurement shall be from the small end of the caber perpendicularly to the scratch line, extended, if necessary, to meet this perpendicular.
The caber must be held by the small end, and tossed over so that the small end shall fall and remain beyond the butt.
The Baron had seen thecaber tossed, and he shook his head.
While the caber was being cut for the others, Bell ran in a hundred yards' race, which he also won; but he came in with his mouth full of blood.
An enormous caber having been cut, and all the leading men (among them some very powerful artillerymen) of the brigade had tried to toss it and failed.
On this George Bell stepped into the arena, and said he would take a turn at it before it was cut; he put the huge caber on his shoulders, balanced it, and tossed it clean over.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "caber" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
