1) Beam thrown by Scotsmen 2) Beam thrown in competitions 3) Brace fashioned out of log 4) Brace formed from log 5) Brace made out of log 6) Brace using log 7) Competition pole 8) Flying log 9) Gaelic game pole 10) Highland fling 11) Highland Games item 12) Highland games log 13) Highland Games necessity 1) Log 
• (n.) A pole or beam used in Scottish games for tossing as a trial of strength. • (n.) A pole or beam, esp. one used in Gaelic games for tossing as a trial of strength.
a log used in the traditional game of ‘tossing the caber’
Ca'ber (kā'bẽr) noun [ Gael] A pole or beam used in Scottish games for tossing as a trial of strength. Ca'ber noun [ Gael. cabar .] A pole or beam, esp. one used in Gaelic games for tossing as a trial of strength. 
A caber is a roughly trimmed young pine-trunk, 20 or more feet long used in Scottish highland games (tossing the caber) as a trial of strength, being held upright by the smaller end and tossed so as strike the ground with the other end and turn over.
[n] - a heavy wooden pole (such as the trunk of a young fir) tossed as a test of strength (in the Highlands of Scotland)
noun a heavy wooden pole (such as the trunk of a young fir) tossed as a test of strength (in the Highlands of northern Scotland)