Buffet

1. A counter or sideboard from which food and drinks are served or may be bought.
2. Food laid out in this way, to which diners serve themselves.
3. A small stool; a stool for a buffet or counter.

noun

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

1. To strike with a buffet; to cuff; to slap.
2. To aggressively challenge, denounce, or criticise.
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.

noun

A low stool; a hassock.