| 释义 | caber Sc.|ˈkeɪbə(r)|
Also 6 cabir, kabar, kebber, kebbre.
[a. Gaelic cabar pole, spar, rafter = Irish cabar lath, Welsh ceibr beam, rafter, Corn. ceber, keber rafter, beam, Breton 9th c. in Luxemb. fol. ‘tignæ, cepriou’.]
1. A pole, or spar, usually consisting of the stem of a young pine or fir-tree, used in house-carpentry, scaffolding, etc.
1513Douglas æneis xii. v. 186 His schaft that was als rude and squair, As it had beyn a cabyr or a spar. 1718A. Ramsay Christ's Kirk iii. xviii, They frae a barn a kabar raught. 1756M. Calderwood Jrnl. (1884) 162 To every plant they give a pole, which is a tree, like the smallest sort of what we call cabers. 1860G. H. K. Vac. Tour 164 They hung them [trouts] on the cabers of their wigwams.
2. esp. as used in the Highland athletic exercise of throwing or tossing the caber.
1862Standard 16 July, Tossing the caber. 1872Daily News 26 July, Caber Throwing. 1881Boys' Newspaper 6 July, The caber is simply a roughly hewn pine trunk denuded of its branches..To toss this skilfully the athlete poises the smaller end against his breast, in an upright position, and, suddenly raising it by sheer force to a level with his shoulder, throws it from him in such a manner that the thick end touches the ground first, and the trunk falls away from him. |
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