buffeting
    n 1: repeated heavy blows [syn: pounding, buffeting]

Buffet \Buf"fet\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Buffeted; p. pr. & vb.
   n. Buffeting.] [OE. buffeten, OF. buffeter. See the
   preceding noun.]
   1. To strike with the hand or fist; to box; to beat; to cuff;
      to slap.
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            They spit in his face and buffeted him. --Matt.
                                                  xxvi. 67.
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   2. To affect as with blows; to strike repeatedly; to strive
      with or contend against; as, to buffet the billows.
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            The sudden hurricane in thunder roars,
            Buffets the bark, and whirls it from the shores.
                                                  --Broome.
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            You are lucky fellows who can live in a dreamland of
            your own, instead of being buffeted about the world.
                                                  --W. Black.
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   3. [Cf. Buffer.] To deaden the sound of (bells) by muffling
      the clapper.
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Buffeting \Buf"fet*ing\, n.
   1. A striking with the hand.
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   2. A succession of blows; continued violence, as of winds or
      waves; afflictions; adversity.
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            He seems to have been a plant of slow growth, but .
            . . fitted to endure the buffeting on the rudest
            storm.                                --Wirt.
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