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buffet

/ˈbʌf.ɪt/ verbo C2
  1. To strike with a buffet; to cuff; to slap. (transitive)
  2. To aggressively challenge, denounce, or criticise. (figuratively, transitive)
  3. To affect as with blows; to strike repeatedly; to strive with or contend against. · to buffet the billows
  4. To deaden the sound of (bells) by muffling the clapper.
  5. To struggle, contend; also in figurative or extended use: to move as if driven by force. (intransitive)

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It was twenty past three when we reached our terminus, and after a hasty luncheon at the buffet we pushed on at once to Scotland Yard.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, p. 78 · B2
The question now is whether we should take a premature lunch here, or run our chance of starving before we reach the buffet at Newhaven.”
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, p. 117 · B2

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