What exactly does tossing the caber mean?

Question

I keep hearing this expression on here and haven't a clue what it means...sorry for my ignorance..lol....

Answer 1

It's a sport in Scotland

Answer 2

It can mean a figurative meaning of throwing a verbal insult to someone.  

Answer 3

I think caber is Scottish for pancake, or something

Answer 4

It's Scottish for masturbating.

P.S. Don't ask what Bagpiping is. lol

Answer 5

This is it Suki-that's Scotch Mist by the way lol!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DYtz7Mon...

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Answer 6

It's a sport in Scotland.

They throw a thing that looks like a telephone pole.

Answer 7

its one of the wrist

Answer 8

A caber is a long pole, similar to a telephone pole.  Tossing a caber is a traditional Scottish athletic event, a test of strength.  You can find more about it here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caber

Answer 9

The expression means male masturbation.  See below:

Answer 10

I'll let you know on Monday :)

Answer 11

It IS a sport! :) It is played by tossing a really long wooden pole , about 20 feet long, making it flip end over end and landing in-line with the thrower. It is usually a Scottish game, played in the Highland Games or Border Games festivals. But iti s still played by Scots (and even non scots) everywhere.

Read this for more information because there is waaaay too much to list here!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caber_toss

Answer 12

It's part of the Highland games.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caber_tossi...

Answer 13

Grown men in skirts, chucking a log around a big grassy field.

Or...well, use your imagination.

Answer 14

Being quite sporty myself,its a log tossing thing.The anagram of caber is brace,so its brace yourself I'm tossing a log i think.

Answer 15

it's when you go to bed and pretend you're

camping, that's when you make the tent.

Answer 16

I do believe that is some kind of deviant practice carried out by grown men in skirts.

Answer 17

I think it something that wild Scotsmen do to impress their wives or goats. Lets say they shoot their sporran as far as they can in a contest. The winner gets to sleep with a sheep for a week.

Answer 18

The caber toss is a traditional Scottish athletic event practiced at the Scottish Highland Games involving the tossing of a large wooden pole called a caber. Google it!

Answer 19

its a sport usually part of the Highland Games in Scotland where competitors will lift and walk to a line with a giant tree log and then toss it over the line, the person who gets it the furthest wins

Answer 20

maybe its like flogging the log...lol  

Answer 21

OK I've explained it before *sighs*

It's when you go out drinking you end up vomiting. Hence tossing the caber!!!

If you have really good friends they'll hold your hair while your tosing the caber!!!