buffet

A counter or sideboard from which food and drinks are served or may be bought.

They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups.

Food laid out in this way, to which diners serve themselves.

We'll be serving supper buffet style.

"We got a big buffet coming up soon. Bacon, eggs, fresh fruit you wouldn't believe."

A small low stool; a hassock.

A blow or cuff with or as if with the hand, or by any other solid object or the wind.

On his cheek a buffet fell.

October 30, 1795, Edmund Burke, letter to Lord Auckland those planks of tough and hardy oak that used for years to brave the buffets of the Bay of Biscay

The vibration of an aircraft when flying in or approaching a stall, caused by separation of airflow from the aircraft's wings.

The aircraft configuration was such that there was little or no warning of the stall onset. The inboard slats were extended, and therefore, the flow separation from the stall would be limited to the outboard segment of the left wing and would not be felt by the left horizontal stabilizer. There would be little or no buffet. The DFDR also indicated that there was some turbulence, which could have masked any aerodynamic buffeting. Since the roll to the left began at V₂ + 6 and since the pilots were aware that V₂ was well above the aircraft's stall speed, they probably did not suspect that the roll to the left indicated a stall. In fact, the roll probably confused them, especially since the stickshaker had not activated.

To strike with a buffet; to cuff; to slap.

They spit in his face and buffeted him.

To aggressively challenge, denounce, or criticise.

Is Burns obscure because he was gay and therefore ignorable until the Gay Rights Movement began? Or does he largely deserve his neglect? An answer requires that one examine not only Burns' books, but also the critical environment in which he was much buffeted — which, we are told, drove him to an early grave.

Buffeted by criticism of his policy on Europe, battered by rebellion in the ranks over his bill to legalize same-sex marriage and wounded by the perception that he is supercilious, contemptuous and out of touch with mainstream Conservatism, Mr. Cameron earlier this week took the highly unusual step of sending a mass e-mail (or, as he called it, “a personal note”) to his party’s grass-roots members.

To affect as with blows; to strike repeatedly; to strive with or contend against.

to buffet the billows

The sudden hurricane in thunder roars, / Buffets the bark, and whirls it from the shores.

To deaden the sound of (bells) by muffling the clapper.

To struggle, contend; also in figurative or extended use: to move as if driven by force.

Again the chirpy tone did nothing to pacify the woman holding on to her ankles. Soon Zoe was buffeting back and forward through the hole.