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Buffeting   /bəfˈeɪɪŋ/  /bˈəfətɪŋ/   Listen
noun
Buffeting  n.  
1.
A striking with the hand.
2.
A succession of blows; continued violence, as of winds or waves; afflictions; adversity. "He seems to have been a plant of slow growth, but... fitted to endure the buffeting on the rudest storm."


verb
Buffet  v. t.  (past & past part. buffeted; pres. part. buffeting)  
1.
To strike with the hand or fist; to box; to beat; to cuff; to slap. "They spit in his face and buffeted him."
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." "You are lucky fellows who can live in a dreamland of your own, instead of being buffeted about the world."
3.
To deaden the sound of (bells) by muffling the clapper.


Buffet  v. i.  
1.
To exercise or play at boxing; to strike; to smite; to strive; to contend. "If I might buffet for my love, or bound my horse for her favors, I could lay on like a butcher."
2.
To make one's way by blows or struggling. "Strove to buffet to land in vain."





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"Buffeting" Quotes from Famous Books



... nerves. Upon Lazenby it acted singularly. He cowered from it, but presently, with a look of madness in his eyes, rushed forward, arms outstretched, as though to seize this intolerable minstrel. There was a sudden pause in the playing; then the room quaked with noise, buffeting Lazenby into stillness. The sounds changed instantly again, and music of an engaging sweetness and delight fell about them as in silver drops—an enchanting lyric of love. Its exquisite tenderness subdued Lazenby, who, but now, had a heart for slaughter. ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker
... breakfast cigar and listened attentively. The story, told consecutively, was quite impressive. In spite of his long experience in buffeting the world, the old soldier's heart was still as simple as that of a child, and the recital awakened his ...
— Aunt Jane's Nieces at Millville • Edith Van Dyne
... gasped the Elephant, now thoroughly worn out by the buffeting of the waves. "Hurry up, I'm ...
— The Cruise of the Noah's Ark • David Cory
... weeks' time the ships returned from Rio de la Hacha, after much buffeting at sea. They brought with them a grain ship they had taken in the port, and several thousand sacks of corn which the Spaniards had paid them as "a ransom for not burning the town." They had also won a lot of silver, "with all other things they could rob"—such as pearls from ...
— On the Spanish Main - Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. • John Masefield
... We infer from many significant trifles, that, while the old English comfort-loving, generous, and hospitable style prevailed there, the severer spirit of Puritanism had not attained ascendancy. Intercourse with the metropolis, though embarrassed with conditions requiring some buffeting and hardship, was compensated by the zest of adventure, and it was frequent enough to quicken the minds and to add to the bodily comforts and refinements of the family. Adam Winthrop must have been a fine specimen of the old English gentleman, with all ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 • Various


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