Buffeting

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  buffeting
       n : repeated heavy blows [syn: {pounding}]