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n. A large sideboard with drawers and cupboards.

n. A counter or table from which meals or refreshments are served.

n. A restaurant having such a counter.

n. A meal at which guests serve themselves from various dishes displayed on a table or sideboard.

adj. Informally served: a buffet luncheon.

n. A blow or cuff with or as if with the hand.

v. To hit or beat, especially repeatedly.

v. To strike against forcefully; batter: winds that buffeted the tent. See Synonyms at beat.

v. To drive or force with or as if with repeated blows: was buffeted about from job to job by the vagaries of the economy.

v. To force (one's way) with difficulty.

verb-intransitive. To force one's way with difficulty: a ship buffeting against the wind.

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

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

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

v. To strike or blow with a buffet or buffets.

n. A low stool; a hassock.

n. A cupboard or set of shelves, either movable or fixed at one side of a room, for the display of plate, china, etc., a sideboard.

n. A counter for food or refreshments.

n. A restaurant containing such a counter, as at a railroad station, or place of public gathering.

n. A meal set out on a buffet[2], arranged so that guests may serve themselves and choose those items that they desire. Diners usually take a plate provided and move in a line past the items on the buffet[2], placing those items they desire on the plate, to be eaten at some convenient place.

n. A blow with the hand; a slap on the face; a cuff.

n. A blow from any source, or that which affects like a blow, as the violence of winds or waves; a stroke; an adverse action; an affliction; a trial; adversity.

n. A small stool; a stool for a buffet or counter.

v. To strike with the hand or fist; to box; to beat; to cuff; to slap.

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

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

verb-intransitive. To exercise or play at boxing; to strike; to smite; to strive; to contend.

verb-intransitive. To make one's way by blows or struggling.

n. A blow with the fist; a box; a cuff; a slap; hence, hard usage of any kind suggestive of blows; a violent shock or concussion: as, “fortune's buffets,”

n. A blast of wind.

To strike with the hand or fist; box; beat.

To beat in contention; contend against as if with blows: as, to buffet the billows.

To exercise at boxing; box; contend with blows of the fists; hence, to force one's way by buffeting.

n. A cupboard, sideboard, or closet, designed to hold china, crystal, plate, and other like articles.

n. The space set apart for refreshments in public places.

n. That part of the cabinet-work of an organ which incloses the pipes.

n. Same as buffet-stool. Wright, Prov. Dict.

n. usually inexpensive bar

n. a meal set out on a buffet at which guests help themselves

v. strike, beat repeatedly

v. strike against forcefully

n. a piece of furniture that stands at the side of a dining room; has shelves and drawers

"Lunch from the on-board snack bar (I'm not sure it's quite worthy of the term buffet) was quite a decent ham, cheese and salad sandwich for me, and sausage rolls for the kids, as we watched the countryside pass by."

buffeted    buffeting    buffets    buffetted   

hit    strike   

eating house    footstool   

buffeted    buffeting   

cuff    stroke    affliction    trial    adversity    box    beat    slap    strike    smite   

A    A.    Bay    Bombay    Bua    Ca    Cabernet    Calais    Cathay    Chevrolet   

sideboard    picnic    bookcase    wardrobe    diningroom    restaurant    cafe    slap    dessert    dresser