When on his cheek a buffet fell. --Sir W.
Scott.
2. A blow from any source, or that which affects like a blow,
as the violence of winds or waves; a stroke; an adverse
action; an affliction; a trial; adversity.
Those planks of tough and hardy oak that used for
yeas to brave the buffets of the Bay of Biscay.
--Burke.
Fortune's buffets and rewards. --Shak.
3. A small stool; a stool for a buffet or counter.
Go fetch us a light buffet. --Townely
Myst.
Not when a gilt buffet's reflected pride Turns you
from sound philosophy aside. --Pope.
2. A counter for refreshments; a restaurant at a railroad
station, or place of public gathering.
They spit in his face and buffeted him. --Matt.
xxvi. 67.
2. To affect as with blows; to strike repeatedly; to strive
with or contend against; as, to buffet the billows.
The sudden hurricane in thunder roars, Buffets the
bark, and whirls it from the shores. --Broome.
You are lucky fellows who can live in a dreamland of
your own, instead of being buffeted about the world.
--W. Black.
3. [Cf. {Buffer}.] To deaden the sound of (bells) by muffling
the clapper.
If I might buffet for my love, or bound my horse for
her favors, I could lay on like a butcher. --Shak.
2. To make one's way by blows or struggling.
Strove to buffet to land in vain. --Tennyson.