'Buffeting' definitions:
Definition of 'Buffeting'
From: GCIDE
- Buffeting \Buf"fet*ing\, n.
- 1. A striking with the hand. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A succession of blows; continued violence, as of winds or waves; afflictions; adversity. [1913 Webster]
- He seems to have been a plant of slow growth, but . . . fitted to endure the buffeting on the rudest storm. --Wirt. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Buffeting'
From: 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. [1913 Webster]
- They spit in his face and buffeted him. --Matt. xxvi. 67. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To affect as with blows; to strike repeatedly; to strive with or contend against; as, to buffet the billows. [1913 Webster]
- The sudden hurricane in thunder roars, Buffets the bark, and whirls it from the shores. --Broome. [1913 Webster]
- You are lucky fellows who can live in a dreamland of your own, instead of being buffeted about the world. --W. Black. [1913 Webster]
- 3. [Cf. Buffer.] To deaden the sound of (bells) by muffling the clapper. [1913 Webster]