BUFFET (2)

buffet (2). Buffet, n. a blow with the fist, box on the ear, stroke, kind of cupboard, for plate or china

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Buf″fet (bŭf″fĕt), n. [[OE. buffet, boffet, OF. buffet a slap in the face, a pair of bellows, fr. buffe blow, cf. F. bouffer to blow, puff; prob. akin to E. puff. For the meaning slap, blow, cf. F. soufflet a slap, souffler to blow. See Puff, v. i., and cf. Buffet sidebroad, Buffoon]] 1. 1. A blow with the hand; a slap on the face; a cuff.
When on his cheek a buffet fell. Sir W. Scott. 2. 2. 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.
Those planks of tough and hardy oak that used for yeas to brave the buffets of the Bay of Biscay. Burke. Fortune's buffets and rewards. Shak. 3. 3. A small stool; a stool for a buffet or counter.
Go fetch us a light buffet. Townely Myst.